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• Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Poetry, a Rhapsody...
• Lovejoy: I know one of you is responsible for this.
  So repeat after me: If I withhold the truth, may I go straight to Hell where I will eat nought but burning hot coals and drink naught but burning hot cola -- [all the kids recite in unison] Ralph...
• A habit of sneering marks the egotist, or the fool, or the knave, or all three. -- Lavate
• T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fool
  Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit....
• I always like to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the Church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.
  Folly! although Erasmus praised thee once In a thick volume, and all authors known, If not thy glory yet thy power have shown, Deign to take homage from thy son who hunts Through all thy maze his brothers, fool and dunce, To mend their lives and to sustain his own, However feebly be his arrows thrown, Howe'er each hide the flying weapons blunts....
• I don't know where we come from, Don't know where we're going to, And if all this should have a reason, We would be the last to know.
  So let's just hope there is a promised land, And until then, ....
• Opinion, that great fool, makes fools of all. -- Field
• I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. Jonathan Swif