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  Oh no, No. no! I dare not. -- Thomas Percy (1728-1811) -- Corydon's Farewell to Philli...
• MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right.
  Having the quality of general expediency. It is sayd there be a raunge of mountaynes in the Easte, on one syde of the which certayn conducts are immorall, yet on the other syde they are holden in good esteeme...
• Nixon did it to us, but we did it to him.
• It's not a question of harm. One William Riker is..
  .unique, perhaps even special. But a hundred of him, a thousand of him, diminishes me in ways I can't even imagine....
• A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride -- for the opening or the shutting of a door.
  -- Stendhal...
• Annoy a liberal: Ask him/her/it to be truthful.
• He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
  Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
  -- Proverbs XXVII, 22...