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• Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject.
  -- Josh Billing...
• He was an angry man, Uncle Swanny. He had printed on his grave
  What are you lookin' at?" -- Margaret Smith...
• He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
  -- Sydney Smith...
• Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknow
  Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own....
• All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still.
  Truth lies between extremes. -- Cecil...
• And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect....
• There is drinking of wine In genuine confidence. No blame.
  But if one wets his head, He loses it, in truth....