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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most sane human beingsâ€� chances of being alive in a thousand yearsâ€� time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

Albert Payson Terhune
“Some proverbs live because they are too true to die. Others endure because they have a smug sound and nobody has bothered to bury them.”
Albert Payson Terhune, Further Adventures of Lad

“There is a phrase that has been bandied about as a prescriptive for success from the late Stephen Covey these last few years, “Begin with the end in mindâ€�. It is a reasonable aphorism if limited to areas that are manageable such as paying off debts in 5 years or finishing a paper at midnight; but is unreasonable for one who intends to reach loftier goals as quickly as one locates a search result on Google. Adages relating to goals and success are meant to target specific people in certain periods of his or her life, not as a carpet bomb that leaves collateral damage of those unprepared to assess his or her own strengths and weaknesses or unwilling to court such an effort. But society is indifferent to these setbacks because each time an individual fails, another person or institution takes advantage of these failures for self-gain. That is the so-called nature of the so-called beast.”
Lloyd Wedes

“I viii 91 ~ He that gives quickly gives twice.

I ix 12 ~ To exact tribute from the dead. ... was applied to those who accumulate wealth from any source, by fair means or foul.

II i 1 ~ Make haste slowly. And so my personal opinion is that if ever a proverb truly deserved the name of royal, this is the one. 135

... for we need not trouble ourselves about names provided we agree upon the thing. 139

'There is no device by which he who does good can escape ill-will.' Erasmus quoting Josephus. 221

No men get a more niggardly return of thanks for their good deeds than those who do a service for the common people. 222”
William Barker, The Adages of Erasmus

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