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• T is not in mortals to command success, But we 'll do more, Sempronius,--we 'll deserve it.
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act i, Sc. 2...
• If I felt any more SOPHISTICATED I would DIE of EMBARRASSMENT! -- Zippy the Pinhead
• I hope I die before I get old ...
• It is tempting to take the easy political path ... to get peace at any price now, even though I know that a peace of humiliation for the United States would lead to a bigger war or surrender later.
  -- Richard M. Nixon, April 30, 1970...
• Macb. If we should fail? Lady M. We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we 'll not fail.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act i, Sc. 7...
• Oh whistle, and I 'll come to ye, my lad.
  -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Whistle, and I 'll come to ye...
• And I will love him and pet him and stroke him and squeeze him..
• Homer: Woo-hoo! I'm a college man! I won't need my high school diploma any more!
  [sets fire to it and starts singing] I am so smart!...
• When I 'm not thank'd at all, I 'm thank'd enough; I 've done my duty, and I 've done no more.
  -- Henry Fielding (1707-1754) -- Tom Thumb the Great, Act i, Sc. 3...