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• Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
  -- Goethe (1749-1832) -- Wilhelm Meister, Book ii, Chap. xiii...
• Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom
  Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?...
• Life is short, art long, occasion sudden; to make experiments dangerou
  judgment difficult. Neither is it sufficient that the physician do his office, unless the patient and his attendants do their duty, and that externals are likewise well ordered....
• The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap.
  ix...
• More light!" --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, 1749-March 22, 1832.
• It is meat, drink, -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. vii
• There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. ix...
• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
  -- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne...
• A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Book iii, Chap. ix...