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• Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• There has never been an "original" sin: each is quite banal. -- Edward Abbey
• The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. iii...
• True, it's only a little dam. But, damn it, it's only a little river. -- Edward Abbey
• History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
  -- Francis M. Voltaire (1694-1778) -- L'Ingenu, Chap. x, (1767.)...
• Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable. -- Edward Abbey
• Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage.
  Choose your parents with care. -- Edward Abbey...
• We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Reason is the newest and rarest thing in human life, the most delicate child of human history.
  -- Edward Abbey...