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• Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this.
  For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward....
• If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires.
  -- Abigail Van Bure...
• If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
  -- Abigail Van Bure...
• The words we use can compound our problems.
• Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallows-tree.
  -- John Fletcher (1576-1625) -- The Bloody Brother, Act iii, Sc. 2...
• If the thread ended in her jeans, should we follow it?
• We now return you to...The Thread That Would Not Die.
• The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous.
  Those who crusade, not _for_ God in themselves, but _against_ the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began....
• We hire Orcus to be our guide. -- Famous Last Word