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• A good idea is one which strikes the other fellow like a bolt of lightning a year or two after you've told it to him.
• Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,--the one to be held by, the other not.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect. 2, Memb. 3...
• Your heart's desires be with you! -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act i, Sc.
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• Two farmers, each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on it's head and the other on the tail, the cow was milked by a lawyer.
• The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide -- as, I think, he will.
  Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction....
• There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire.
  The other is to get it. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), "Man and Superma...
• 2+2=5 for moderately large values of two...
• A priest was walking along the cliffs at Dover when he came upon two locals pulling another man ashore on the end of a rope.
  "That's what I like to see", said the priest, "A man helping his fellow man"....