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• A virginal is a harpsichord that has never been plucked.
• It is better to be a has-been than one who never was.
• To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 2...
• The man who has never been flogged has never been taught. -- Menande
• There has never been an "original" sin: each is quite banal. -- Edward Abbey
• Virtue has never been as respectable as money. -- Mark Twai
• No man is a good physician who has never been sick. Arab Proverb
• Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. -- Claud Cockbu