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• How many lesbians -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Three. One to screw it in and two to talk about how much better it is than with a man....
• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
  Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. -- Henry David Thoreau...
• Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest.
  Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...
• The chief aim of their constitution and government is tha
  whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind....
• One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life.
  The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community....
• How many veterinarians -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Three. One to change the bulb and two more to complain that an MD makes ten times as much for the same procedure!...
• Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched.
  If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fac...
• Once upon a time there were three brothers who were knights in a certain kingdom.
  And, there was a Princess in a neighboring kingdom who was of marriageable age....