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• Beware the fury of a patient man.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 1005...
• Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk,--the business of the day.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 407...
• Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 1...
• Who think too little, and who talk too much.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 534...
• He has, I know not what, of greatness in his looks, and of high fate, that almost awes me.
  -- John Dryde...
• So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 557...
• Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his ow
  He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day....
• Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
  [Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.] -- Virgil, Aeneid...
• Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. [I fear the Greeks though bearing gifts.
  ] - Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BCE) "The Aeneid" (19 BCE)...