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• Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to
  Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity....
• Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth. -- John Lyly
• The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heave
  un, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion....
• The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President.
  All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?...
• In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasa
  it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth....
• COBOL.....(C)ompiles (O)nly (B)ecause (O)f (L)uck
• LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property.
  The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure....
• LISP n. [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother tongue
  a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• LISP: [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] n.
  AI's mother tongue, a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....