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• One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind. -- Edward Abbey
• It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• All that glitters is not gold; all that wander are not lost.
• Most likely all that gold was stolen from this vault.
• Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
  -- Leo Tolstoy...
• All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
  [ all that glitters is not gold. ]...
• All that glitters is not gold. All that doesn't glitter isn't either.
• All governments require enemy governments. -- Edward Abbey