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• He who marries the Spirit of his Age, soon becomes a widower.
• A novice of the temple once approached the Chief Priest with a question.
  "Master, does Emacs have the Buddha nature?" the novice asked....
• Upon an island hard to reach, the East Beast sits upon his beach.
  Upon the west beach sits the West Beast. Each beach beast thinks that he's the best beast....
• No bounds his headlong, vast ambition knows. -- Rowe.
• He laid his hand upon "the Ocean's mane," And played familiar with his hoary locks.
  -- Robert Pollok (1799-1827) -- The Course of Time, Book iv, Line 389...
• All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
  They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages....
• If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the separation to have killed him
  yet according to our daily experience, it might well prolong his life....
• He spent his last shilling on a purse.
• Once upon a time, there was a fisherman who lived by a great river.
  One day, after a hard day's fishing, he hooked what seemed to him to be the biggest, strongest fish he had ever caught....