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• The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black is lost in the gray of it.
  It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages....
• DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Never say die.
  At long intervals, however, some one says: "The die is cast," which is not true, for it is cut....
• Grampa: I think Rudyard Kipling said it best: If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-to
  and lose, and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss, yours is the earth is everything that is in it, and, which is more, you'll be a man, my son....
• Please! Take my word for it.
• Take my word for it.
• There's no such word as FAIL in my vocabulary!
• Amnesia used to be my favorite word, but then I forgot it.
• Amnesia used to be my favorite word, but then I forgot it.