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• Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.
  -- Francis Quarles (1592-1644) -- Emblems, Book ii, Emblem 2...
• It is the lot of man but once to die. -- Francis Quarles (1592-1644) -- Emblems, Book v, Emblem 7
• The next way home 's the farthest way about. -- Francis Quarles (1592-1644) -- Emblems, Book iv, Emblem 2, Ep.
  2...
• We will fight to the death for our pacifist aims. -- Grammar rules for the unenlightened
• The writing of more than 75 poems in any fiscal year should be punishable by a fine of $
  500. -- Ed Sande...
• The slender debt to Nature 's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.
  -- Francis Quarles (1592-1644) -- Emblems, Book ii, Emblem 13...
• Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -- The Princess Bride by William Goldma
• Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed A fairer spirit or more welcome shade.
  -- Thomas Tickell (1686-1740) -- On the Death of Mr. Addison, Line 45...
• Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.
  -- Francis Quarles (1592-1644)...