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KNOWLEDGE:

KNOWLEDGE: Knowledge is power. -Francis Bacon All that we know is, nothing can be known. -Byron The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn. -Bernard De Voto All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. -T.S.Eliot Knowledge is the antidote to fear. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

KINDNESS:

KINDNESS: Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. -Henry Burton Great persons are able to do great kindnesses. -Cervantes I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that  I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. -Etienne De Grellet To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. -Samuel Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson Not always action show the man: we fine Who does a kindness is not therefore kind. -Alexander Pope: Moral Essays Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love. -Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about. -Oscar Wilde The best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey

JOY:

JOY: Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, Bidding adieu. -Keats: Ode on Melancholy The most evident token and apparent sign  of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing. -Montaigne Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. -Psalms 30:5

JOURNALISM:

JOURNALISM: Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification. -James Bennett Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land. -Samuel Bowles Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean, And furbish falsehoods for a magazine. -Byron: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. -Napoleon Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. -G.B.Shaw Get your facts first, and then you can distort'em as much as your please. -Mark Twain The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read. -Oscar Wilde.

JEST:

JEST: And generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. -Francis Bacon Thou cannot not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy. -Benjamin Franklin It is better to lose a new jest than an old friend. -Gabriel Harvey Play with me and hurt me not. -Gabriel Harvey: Marginalia Jesters do not often prove prophets. -Shakespeare: King Lear