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• What we call human nature, is actually human habit. -- Jewel
• Not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree.
• Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washingto...
• There is a jewel-encrusted trident here!
• Man is by nature a political animal. -- Aristotle
• If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind!
  Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!...
• Man has now conquered almost everything in nature except human nature.
• Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark
  What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!...