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• Better tried by twelve than carried by six. -- Jeff Coope
• Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- D. Knuth
• I would rather see starlight than streetlights.
• Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred.
  By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters....
• I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
• I rather lose my CARRIER than my mind!
• Sir, I would rather have my problem than yours.
• I am a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
• I would rather make my name than inherit it. THACKERAY