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Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick’s Day consists of the night of the seventeenth of March flavored strongly with the morning of the eighteenth.
               – Author unknown

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Mardi Gras is a thing which could hardly exist in the practical North.  For the soul of it is the romantic, not the funny and the grotesque.  Take away the romantic mysteries, the kings and knights and big-sounding titles, and Mardi-Gras would die, down there in the South.
               – Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
                 American author and humorist
                 1835-1910

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
                 – Ralph Waldo Emerson
                    American Transcendentalist author
                    1803 – 1882

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…if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter…reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.
               – General George Washington
                 Commander in Chief of the Continental Army (1774-1783) and
                 First President of the United States
                 From a speech to the Officers of the Army at Newburgh, New York
                 March 15, 1783

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Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.
                 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
                    French writer and aviator
                    1900-1944
                    From Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

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Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
               – John Wilmot
                 2nd Earl of Rochester
                 1647 – 1680

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If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them as you think you should and half the amount of money.
               – Esther Selsdon
                  British novelist and travel writer

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It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
               – Charles Dickens
                  1812-1870