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• Yield to Temptation ... it may not pass your way again.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A.
  Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• When the need arises -- and it does -- you must be able to shoot your own dog.
  Don't farm it out -- that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse....
• Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A.
  Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
  Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage....
• A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes.
  This may be the purpose of the universe. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A....
• A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs.
  When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy....