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• Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. lxxi...
• There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- A Fable for Critic...
• Wise words in the mouths of fools oft belie.
• I never fall off. -- Famous Last Word
• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Sir Winston Churchill
• Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. -- Edward Abbey
• To endure, be obscure.
• Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Colours may, in time, fade.