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• Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 213...
• Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm inuspeptic, frasmotic...even compunctious to have caused you such pericumbobulations.
  -- Edmund to Dr. Johnson : Ink and Incapability...
• He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. -- Dr. Johnso
• I would prefer not to answer that question. "Under the circumstances I don't think Tasha would mind.
  She was special to me, sir. We were...intimate. -- Data and Picard, "The Measure of a Man", stardate 42523....
• Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
  Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1777]...
• Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
  Franklin P. Adam...
• O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sigh
  of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 't were to buy a world of happy days....
• All the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.
  -- From the inscription on the tomb of the Duchess of Newcastle -- in Westminster Abbey...
• A woman was married to a golfer. One day she asked, "If I were to die, would you remarry?
  After some thought, the man replied, "Yes, I've been very happy in this marriage and I would want to be this happy again....