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• HOVEL, n. The fruit of a flower called the Palace.
  Twaddle had a hovel, Twiddle had a palace...
• Self conquest is the greatest of victories. PLATO
• Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
  Epicuru...
• The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. -- Wole Soyinka
• Self-love is the greatest of flatterers. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
  -- Patricia Sampso...
• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne...
• Freedom, freedom!
• I asked the engineer who designed the communication terminal's keyboards why these were not manufactured in a central facility, in view of the small number needed [1 per month] in his factory.
  He explained that this would be contrary to the political concept of local self-sufficiency....