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• Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
  -- Josh Billing...
• Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like other people.
  -- James Russell Lowell, "My Study Window...
• But John P. Robinson, he Sez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. iii...
• Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Vision of Sir Launfal, Prelude to Part Fi...
• I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anybody deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.
  -- Dick Butkus, Chicago Bears Linebacke...
• Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie
  Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not....
• Earth's noblest thing,--a woman perfected. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Irene
• Not failure, but low aim, is crime. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
• Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Cathedral