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• For great wrong doings there are great punishme
• Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire ii, Line 207...
• Look wise, say nothing, and grunt: speech was given to conceal thought. -- William Ostle
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• Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. -- Voltaire