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• The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
  -- Sir William Temple...
• LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or by nature.
  This latter is commonly designated as folk-lore and embraces popularly myths and superstitions....
• In modern Europe, as in ancient Greece, it would seem that even inanimate objects have sometimes been punished for their misdeeds.
  After the revocation of the edict of Nantes, in 1685, the Protestant chapel at La Rochelle was condemned to be demolished, but the bell, perhaps out of regard for its value, was spared....
• Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.
  -- Sir Edward Coke (1549-1634) -- Debate in the Commons, May 17, 1628...
• Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. -- Thomas Fulle
• Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Advancement of Learning, Book i, (1605.)...
• The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not.
  We have plenty of messenger boys....
• These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country
  but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of our men and women....
• Beside the Temple, to which room is it possible to go from the Altar?