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• He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
  -- Ali Ben Abu Taleb...
• Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou can'st.
  -- Ben Frankli...
• Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse,-- Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother.
  Death, ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee....
• If thou injurest conscience, it will have its revenge on thee. -- Ben Frankli
• Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun Thou springest from bondage and leavest behind thee A name which before thee no mortal hath won.
  Tho' nations may combat, and war's thunders rattle, No more on thy steed wilt thou sweep o'er the plai...
• And the Lord spake unto Elvis, "Thou hast spoken against me Elvis, and I curse thee to have thy blue suede shoes trod upon for all time.
  .....
• The Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
  -- Old Testament -- Numbers xxii, 28...
• The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pelopida...
• One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good. German Proverb