• Rich man

    2009-07-12

    都说穷人日子难过,其实富人有时也不好过。你节俭、花钱小心,别人说你吝啬成性;你慷慨大方,别人说你本该如此,没什么了不起。并不是有意为有钱人开脱,实在是这世上先入为主的成见太多。


      Grandfather was a philosopher, and like a lot of philosophers, I guess, he was a mild-mannered man who was always ready to admit that there ar...
  • The Rose

    2009-07-12

    --- Logan Pearsall Smith ( 1865-1946 )


      The old lady had always been proud of the great rose-tree in her garden, and was fond of telling how it had grown from a cutting she had brought years before from Italy, when she was first mar...
  • Today is a Gift

    2009-07-12

     Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room‘s only window. The other man had to spend all ...
  • You Did Good

    2009-07-12

    My dad grew up during the Depression and later fought in World War II. When he was born, his own father was too old and tired to invest any time in his only child, so my dad learned early on how to work hard and make money. And no matter how bad things...