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• Commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosom.
  -- Fielding...
• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.
  The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it....
• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.
  The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it....
• Trischmann's Paradox: A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
• Axiom of the Pipe (Trischmann's Paradox) A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
• A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
  -- Trischmann's Paradox...
• Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Timon of Athens -- Act iii, Sc.
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• There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a christian on his death bed.
  -- Hannah More...
• A dead comic is at his wit's end...