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• YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
  Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and clows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice never is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost!...
• We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves. -- Prophet Joseph Smith
• Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything and everything is nought.
  -- Horace Smith (1779-1849) -- Rejected Addresses, Cui Bono?...
• And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!) In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory.
  -- Horace Smith (1779-1849) -- Address to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibitio...
• The best prophet of the future is the past.
• There is no god, and Murphy is his prophet.
• Atheism is a non-prophet organization.