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• There is properly no history; only biography. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "History
• Isn't it ironic that many men spend a great part of their lives avoiding marriage while single-mindedly pursuing those things that would make them better prospects?
• The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms.
  History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so....
• Be patient with those who are slower than you, for they make you look better.
• The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
  Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well"....
• Homer: Gee Herb, because of me you lost your business, your home, and all your possessions.
  I can't help but think that maybe you'd have been better off if I'd never come into your life....
• MARRIAGE: An old, established institution, entered into by two people deeply in love and desiring to make a committment to each other expressing that love.
  In short, committment to an institution....
• I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country i
  hey like to run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am...
• I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country i
  hey like to run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am...