Quotemeal: Jun. 2nd, 1956

Saturday, June 2, 1956

"People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not."
— Sydney J. Harris

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"If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back."
— John of the Cross —
"The door of God is humility. Our fathers, through the many insults which they suffered, entered the city of God."
— John the Short —
"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson —
"The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example."
— Thomas Morell —

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Illustration of Sydney J. Harris — "People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not."

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