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• Will of iron, whim of steel
• In the old days, we had wooden ships ruled by iron men.
  Now we have steel ships and blockheads running them. -- Capt. D. Seymou...
• Am I dying or is is this my birthday?
  --Lady Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, member of British parliament, 1879-1964...
• This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowe
  Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal...
• It is one thing to purloin finely-tempered steel, and another to take a pound of literary old iro
  and convert it in the furnace of one's own mind into a hundred watchsprings, worth each a thousand times as much as the iron....
• I'm a sucker for shrimps, but thought I smelt a whale.
• The British are coming! The British are coming!
• And the Angel of the Lord dropped upon him, yea verily, saying
  My left hand carries iron, The right one steel. If the left don't gitcha, Then the right one will....
• Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.