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• He lives by rule who lives himself to please. -- Crabbe
• He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. -- Edgar R. Fiedle
• If you are sure what you do will meet with everyone's approval, somebody won't like it.
  -- Chisholm, Third Law, Corollary 2...
• Chisolm's Third Law, Corollary 2: If you do something which you are sure will meet with everyone's approval, somebody won't like it.
• Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
  -- Amy Lowell...
• A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows -- John Hall Wheelock
• A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that 's never read,-- To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
  This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school....
• If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve.
  -- Don Marqui...
• Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. -- Heraclitu