Quotes from authors passed in 1931
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Kahlil Gibran
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran
Cuba Gooding, Jr. 
Rupert Brooke 
Lexa Doig 
Murasaki Shikibu 
Fats Waller 
Dennis Hopper 
Peter Sellers 
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