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• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
  And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true....
• We like all kinds of praise, but a hike in our pay is the best kind.
• We all like praise, but a hike in our pay is the best kind of ways.
• No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to.
  It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself...
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possesion of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
  -- Jane Austen (1775-1817)...
• Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.
  Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery school....
• The beach was a beach we shall not name, because his private house was there
  but it was a small sandy stretch somewhere along the hundreds of miles of coastline that runs west from Los Angeles, which is described in the new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in one entry as "junky, wunky, lunky, stunky, and what's that other word, and all kinds of bad stuff, woo," and in another, written only hours later as "being like several thousand square miles of American Express junk mail, but without the same sense of moral depth....
• Nothing but death." --Jane Austen, author, 1775-1817