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• Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. -- Rudyard Kipling
• You like to think of yourselves as complex creatures, but you're flawed.
  One gains admittance to your minds through many levels....
• And when with envy Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You 'll in your girls again be courted, And I 'll go wooing in my boys.
  -- Thomas Percy (1728-1811) -- Winifreda (1720)...
• If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master.
  The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual....
• You 're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.
  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Rivals, Act v, Sc. 1...
• We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act i, Sc. 3...
• I 'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• I 'll warrant him heart-whole. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act iv, Sc.
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• You'll learn something about men and women -- the way they're supposed to be.
  Caring for each other, being happy with each other, being good to each other....