#pa

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#art #equally #impartially #only #schools

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#classes #commercial #hope #live #memory

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fiction #henry #henry james #james #mr

During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#back #barack #barack obama #believed #bet

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#abraham lincoln #admiration #audacious #better #both

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#how #i #laughter #me #only

A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#babies #baby #big #born #carrie

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#because #beds #chairs #could #did

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#baby #been #carrie #creek #fever

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#farther #fed #indians #lived #man