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• Some of the most interesting documents from Sweden's middle ages are the old county laws (well, we never had counties but it's the nearest equivalent I can find for "landskap").
  These laws were written down sometime in the 13th century, but date back even down into Viking times....
• We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
  -- T. S. Elio...
• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
  -- Samuel Johnson, Letter to Lord Chesterfield, February 1755...
• Along the south side, so cold that we cried, were we ever colder on that day, a million miles away, it seemed from all of eternity.
• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
  -- T.S. Elio...
• But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we ru
  And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be done....
• The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed.
  Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days....
• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
  -- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adam...