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• I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of another. -- Greville
• The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat.
  And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?...
• I'm So Skeptical, I Can Hardly Believe It.
• Still a few bugs in the system... Someday I have to tell you about Uncle Nahum from Maine, who spent years trying to cross a jellyfish with a shad so he could breed boneless shad.
  His experiment backfired too, and he wound up with bony jellyfish....
• It's so loud I can hardly hear the voices in my head.
• Insane little animals... ferrets, I mean.
• RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the Scheme of Things as an elemental unit of a parade.
  The Knights of Dominion were so resplendent in their velvet- and-gold that their masters would hardly have known them....
• Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets.
  I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge...
• Will you stop interrupting me. I mean, this is hardly a time to be teaching you the true nature of the universe.
  -- Q to Riker, "Hide and Q", stardate 41590.5...