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• If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they MIGHT write all the books in the British museum.
  -- Sir Arthur Eddingto...
• There is a special department of Hell for students of probability.
  In it there are an infinite number of monkeys and typewriters....
• Smithers: Mmm...this guilt is driving me _mad_! I've _got_ to tell someone.
  [walks into a church; goes to the confession booth] Father, I'm not a Catholic, but....
• I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
  -- James Barrie...
• Tried to play my shoehorn... all I got were footnotes!
• Let us fly and save our bacon. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book iv, Chap. lv
• Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Plan of the work...
• I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Atheism...
• In charity there is no excess. -- Francis Baco