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• Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
  -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley...
• Virtue can only flourish amongst equals. -- Mary Wollstonecraf
• We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel. -- Mary Wollstonecraf
• I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egyp
  on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be, "Be sure, before I start, you have all the jewelry and so forth on the body, because I am NOT unwrapping him later....
• There are only two things in this world that I am sure of, death and taxes, and we just might do something about death one of these days.
  -- shade...
• I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
  -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu...
• I, on the other hand, am a well-rounded human being
  with a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three old stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out Of Me....
• In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.
• Lisa: Dad, can you take me to Dr. Hibbert's office?
  Homer: Why? What's wrong? Lisa: Oh, nothing. I just scheduled a tetanus booster....