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• Narrator: While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
  Homer: 'Tis some visiter, Narrator: I muttered, Home...
• Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
  -- Alfonso the Wise [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....
• For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel.
  And if one can neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one?...
• Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow -- T.
  S. Eliot, "The Hollow Man" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....
• What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
  -- Robert Frost [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....
• A place for everything and everything in its place.
  -- Isabella Mary Beeton, "The Book of Household Management" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....
• Delay not, Caesar. Read it instantly. -- Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 3,1 Here is a letter, read it at your leisure.
  -- Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice" 5,1 [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....
• It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening.
  Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes....
• For the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven levels, each delved into a hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall was a gate.
  -- J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Return of the King" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....