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• Than Timoleon's arms require, And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.
  -- Mark Akenside (1721-1770) -- Ode, On a Sermon against Glory, Stanza ii...
• Such and so various are the tastes of men.
  -- Mark Akenside (1721-1770) -- Pleasures of the Imagination, Book iii, Line 567...
• The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
  -- Mark Akenside (1721-1770) -- Epistle to Curio...
• Yeah, but they are good at making toys. I mean look at Windows.
  .. -- From a Slashdot.org post about Microsoft's X-Box console...
• A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.
• And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Annus Mirabilis, Stanza 39...
• And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto x, Stanza 24...
• Oh for a forty-parson power! -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto x, Stanza 34
• The human being, like the immortals, naturally places sexual intercourse far and away above all other joys -- yet he has left it out of his heaven.
  -- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910)...