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• It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise. -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iii, Sc. 2...
• An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as if it stands.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Retirement, Line 681...
• T is Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- A Fable, Moral...
• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. -- William Blake
• It's easier to listen than it is to think. -- Andy Rooney, on the popularity of televisio
• Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 363...
• Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 673...
• So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
  -- William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose...