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• A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. -- Quintus Curtius Rufu
• Victory or defeat!
• I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
• Sir, I would rather have my problem than yours.
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumph
  even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat....
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure .
  . . than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat....
• I would rather see starlight than streetlights.
• I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.
  -- Marcus Procius Cato...
• I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
  -- Elbert Hubbard...