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• While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
  -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....
• For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel.
  And if one can neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one?...
• A place for everything and everything in its place.
  -- Isabella Mary Beeton, "The Book of Household Management" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....
• Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow -- T.
  S. Eliot, "The Hollow Man" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....
• Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
  -- Alfonso the Wise [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....
• What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
  -- Robert Frost [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....
• Call things by their right names... Glass of brandy and water!
  That is the current but not the appropriate name...
• Delay not, Caesar. Read it instantly. -- Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 3,1 Here is a letter, read it at your leisure.
  -- Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice" 5,1 [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....
• For the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven levels, each delved into a hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall was a gate.
  -- J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Return of the King" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....