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• The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flowing hidden in the underground, secretly making the ground greener.
  -- Thomas Carlyle...
• In part to blame is she, Which hath without consent bin only tride
  He comes to neere that comes to be denide. -- Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) -- A Wife, St. 36...
• Burns: Look at that man, he has the crowd in the palm of his hand.
  I haven't seen anything like it since Jolson....
• A person who has a right to boast doesn't have to.
• Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie.
• A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
  -- Ambrose Bierce...
• At the hospital, a doctor is training an intern on how to announce bad news to the patients.
  The doctor tells the intern "This man in 305 is going to die in six months....
• Burns: Oh please please, don't fight. Just go out back and have a good time.
  [to Smithers] Fire that man Smithers, I don't want him, or his unpleasant family to ruin my picnic....
• Diogenes the Cynic, when a little before his death he fell into a slumber, and his physician rousing him out of it asked him whether anything ailed him, wisely answered, "Nothing, si
  only one brother anticipates another,--Sleep before Death....