The difference between a little money and no money — Thornton Wilder
The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous—and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight—and that, also, can shatter the world.
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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
Leonardo da Vinci
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Platão
Sin is geographical.
Bertrand Russell
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln