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• Lest the bargain should catch cold and starve. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Cymbeline -- Act i, Sc.
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• Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrate
  The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain....
• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
  -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)...
• It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil.
  The want of money is so quite as truly. -- Samuel Butle...
• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well.
  -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902), "Notebooks" 1912...
• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it---and stop there
  lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid....
• Of some men we should not say that they fear God, but that they are afraid of Him.
• Justice, like lightning, should ever appear To some men hope, to other men fear.
  -- Jefferson Pierce...
• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of though
  Samuel Butle...