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• Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. --Jeremy Collie
• Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will?
  Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest. -- Gay (1688-1732)...
• Strong reasons make strong actions. -- William Shakespeare
• Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
  -- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)...
• Ill-bred children are always displaying their pest manners.
• As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive
  no laconism can reach it: 'tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room....
• Musick is almost as dangerous as Gunpowder; and it may be requires looking after no less than the Press or the Mint.
  'Tis possible a publick Regulation might not be amiss. -- Jeremy Collier (1650-1726)...
• An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
  -- Robert A. Heinlein, "Beyond This Horizon", 1942...
• What this world needs is a damn good plague.