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• To do nothing is in every man's power. -- Samuel Johnso
• The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. -- Samuel Johnso
• O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent?
  But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?...
• A mutated, superior man could also be a wonderful thing .
  .. the forerunner of a new and better kind of human being!...
• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. -- Samuel Johnso
• Perseverance brings good fortune. No remorse. The light of the superior man is true. Good fortune.
• Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
  -- Honore de Balzac...
• True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about as easy as one can.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)...
• Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzza
  And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Caesar with a senate at his heels....