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• I'll tell you what made this town great! Good old-fashioned gumption.
  there's nothing here a little elbow-grease won't fix....
• It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, but a good deal to know in which direction to point that organ.
  -- W.H. Aude...
• Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
  -- Thomas Carlyle...
• What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job?
  If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are....
• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
• Marge: What's going on? Bart: Mom, I thought you might forget our little conversation this afternoon, so I took the precaution of recording it.
  Marge: What conversation? Bart: [turns on a tape recorder] Tape...
• Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzza
  And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Caesar with a senate at his heels....
• The following appeared as part of a recommendation made by a faculty member to the president of a large university.
  "Never once in our 150-year history as a university have we clarified our objectives....
• What constitutes a state? Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.
  And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill....