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• Think that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.
  -- Jacob Boba...
• The following appeared in a letter to the editor of an archaeological magazine.
  "Archaeologists excavated a cave that had been inhabited by prehistoric people for thousands of years....
• The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St.
  Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable....
• Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence?
  Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress?...
• Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?
  Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress?...
• SCRIBBLER, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
  As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee, the most ancient and famous city of the world, female heretics were thrown to the mice....
• The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn.
  -- Earl Warren That men do not learn very much from history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach....
• Most of us can do more than we think we can, but usually do less than we think we have.