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• Never make a rich man poor. -- Rule #2
• Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee--and not too far away lest he forget thee.
  -- Aneurin Beva...
• Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 905...
• Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee. Biblical Proverb
• Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iii, 7...
• Nearer, my God, to Thee! Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me, Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to Thee!
  Nearer to Thee!...
• Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,-- Therefore on him no speech!
  And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse....
• Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. -- William Pe
• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? - Cold, wet and miserable.