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• To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. -- Victor Hugo
• OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
  All acting is simulation, and the word _simulation_ is from _simia_, an ape...
• The lake has risen up to heaven: The image of Break-through.
  Thus the superior man Dispenses riches downward And refrains from resting on his virtue....
• BACKBITE, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites.
  Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge....
• A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that. -- Ambrose Bierce
• Noncombatant: A dead Quaker. -- Ambrose Bierce
• FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said -- "That definition's just.
  The boy said naught but through instead, Remembering his pounded head...