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• We do not have enough things to kill off the weak and the stupid these days.
  But to stay alive as an armed citizen a man has to be either quick with his wits or with his hands, preferably both....
• An armed society is a polite society. -- Robert A. Heinlein, 'The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress'
• Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
  Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage....
• A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves.
  Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child....
• The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
  -- William Wordsworth...
• The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
  -- Wordsworth...
• There is one right, which man is generally thought to possess, which I am confident he neither does, nor can, posse
  a right to subsistence when his labour will not fairly purchase it....
• Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reaso
  of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property....