Quotes from authors born on Dec 23rd
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel Smiles
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.
Akihito
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
John Callahan
Isabella Rossellini 
Linda Hamilton 
Charles Edison 
Esther Williams 
Evelyn Glennie 
John Herschel 
Camille Paglia 
Dave Willis