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  -- Marcel Prou...
• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- A Psalm of Life...
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.
  -- Anatole France...
• We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. -- Jean de La Bruyere
• We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France (1844-1924)
• The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
  -- Anatole France...
• We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked. -- Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy
• We cannot prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days.
  But so said all before us, and with just as much reason....
• Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
  Paul Valery...