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• The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.
  -- Robert Benchley...
• ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage.
  From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent....
• From which room can one enter the robber's hideaway without passing through the cyclops room?
• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.
  -- Sir William Temple (1628-1699) -- Ancient and Modern Learning...
• The stories of childhood leave an indelible impressio
  and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived....
• If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop.
• In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar -- a practice which is still continued.
  -- Helen Rowland...