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• 'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, Than for offense to ask it. -- Thomso
• My Love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high
  It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. -- Andrew Marvell...
• Talk not of comfort, 'tis for lighter ills; I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
  -- Addiso...
• 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyso
• Tis the dream of each programmer, Before his life is done, To write three lines of APL, And make the damn thing run.
• Tis the dream of each programmer, Before his life is done, To write three lines of APL, And make the damn things run.
• Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
  -- Sir Walter Raleigh before his beheading...
• Brave men were living before Agamemnon. -- Horace (65-8 BC) -- Odes, iv, 9, 25