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• Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently. -- John G. Vance
• And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.
  -- Rubáiyát. Stanza lxxvii....
• And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.
  -- Omar Khayyam (died c.1133) -- Rubaiyat, Stanza lxxvii...
• Better dead than Redmond.
• Better gay than grumpy!
• Honesty is better than lying.
• It is better to be brief than boring.
• It is better to be good than original.
• It's better to divorce than to murder.