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  a stranger, and not thine own lips. -- Proverbs XXVII, 2...
• A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
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• Tis better to be hunter than hunted.
• Tis better to live than to conceive...
• He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book iv, Chap. lxii...
• Do you think the State or any other institution should do more for writers?
  The State should do no more for writers than it should do for any other person who lives in it....
• You don't have to be jealous of the girl who works on your Bicycle.
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• Don't trust a man wearing a better suit than your own. -- Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #47
• Every man is his own hell. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)