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• Facts are stubborn things. -- Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) -- Translation of Gil Blas, Book x, Chap.
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• Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
  -- Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) -- Ode to Independence...
• Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. -- Tobias G. Smolle
• I'll grant thee random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love
  And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove And in our bound partition never part....
• EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation.
  Hail, high Excess -- especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me -- My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine....
• Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap. xl, Of Good and Evil...
• Better is to bow then breake. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. ix
• Ye have heard that it have been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
  -- New Testament -- Matthew v, 43...
• Shall I show you the muscular training of a philosopher?
  What muscles are those?"--A will undisappointed; evils avoided...