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• So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Bussy D'Ambois, Act i, Sc. 1...
• He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron, Act v, Sc. 1...
• Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind
  Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air....
• An ill weed grows apace. -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- An Humorous Day's Mirth
• Black is a pearl in a woman's eye. -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- An Humorous Day's Mirth
• Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• On their own merits modest men are dumb.
  -- George Colman, the Younger (1762-1836) -- Epilogue to the Heir at Law...
• Obscurism: The practice of peppering daily life with obscure references (forgotten films, dead TV stars, unpopular books, defunct countries, etc.
  ) as a subliminal means of showcasing both one's education and one's wish to disassociate from the world of mass culture....
• A lot of the stuff I do is so minimal, and it's designed to be minimal.
  The smallness of it is what's attractive. It's weird, 'cause it's so intellectually lame....