wisdom trinkets continued

• A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one ~ Thomas Carlyle 
  

• If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much ~ mark twain

• Each human contact is so rare it should be protected ~ Anais nin

• Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ~ John Drinkwater