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• Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage.
  Choose your parents with care. -- Edward Abbey...
• What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love. -- Edward Abbey
• Money may buy friendship but money can not buy love.
• Perfection is a minor virtue. -- Edward Abbey
• Simplicity is always a virtue. -- Edward Abbey
• Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must.
  It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price. -- Robert J. Ringe...
• The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. -- Edward Abbey
• You can't belay a man who's falling in love. -- Edward Abbey
• Money cannot buy love, nor even friendship.