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• When I 'm not thank'd at all, I 'm thank'd enough; I 've done my duty, and I 've done no more.
  -- Henry Fielding (1707-1754) -- Tom Thumb the Great, Act i, Sc. 3...
• I wish I lived back in the old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick.
  Then I'd go out West and start digging for gold....
• I 've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted
  ime will doubt of Rome. -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iv, Stanza 101...
• My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers. -- Edward Abbey
• I(ve) B(een) M(islead)
• It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versaille
  and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision....
• What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. -- Ashleigh Brillia
• I either want less decadence or more chance to participate in it.