https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 30 May 2026 20:24:06 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/bronte-charlotte/36832/ https://wist.info/bronte-charlotte/36832/#respond Fri, 21 Apr 2017 22:09:36 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36832 If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust; the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should — so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) British novelist [pseud. Currer Bell]
Jane Eyre, ch. 6 [Jane] (1847)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/bronte-charlotte/36832/feed/ 0 36832 https://wist.info/rogers-fred/36038/ https://wist.info/rogers-fred/36038/#respond Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:02:18 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36038 The world is not always a kind place. That’s something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it’s something they really need our help to understand.

Fred Rogers (1928-2003) American educator, minister, songwriter, television host ["Mister Rogers"]
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