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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman Douglas
Wisdom
Hardship
Winter
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Norman Douglas
Authority
Distrust
Duty
First
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas
Education
State
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas
Lie
Fool
Man
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Norman Douglas
Home
Friends
Man
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Norman Douglas
People
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
Norman Douglas
Day
Nothing
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Norman Douglas
Work
Man
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Norman Douglas
Wisdom
Dying
Living
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Norman Douglas
Society
Man
Respect
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
Norman Douglas
Neighbors
To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas
Friend
Eye
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Norman Douglas
Wisdom
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
Norman Douglas
Age
Character
Man
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
Norman Douglas
Advertising
Ideals
Nation