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• It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun. -- Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) -- Discourses on Government, Chap.
  ii, Sect. xxiii...
• Liars ought to have good memories. -- Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) -- Discourses on Government, Chap.
  ii, Sect. xv...
• Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
  -- Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) -- Discourses on Government, Chap. ii, Sect. xviii...
• God help those who do not help themselves. -- Wilson Mizne
• God helps them that helps themselves. -- B. Frankli
• Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Concerning the Epicureans, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap. xx...
• God helps them that help themselves.
  -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757...
• He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves. -- A. P. Gouthey