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• Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Notebooks(1935)...
• The dearer a thing is, the cheaper as a general rule we sell it -- Samuel Butle
• Why do other people hear our voices different than we do? Because their heads are full of mush.
• What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.
• Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think
  and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon....
• We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have never deceived us.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...