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• The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
• We never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
  -- The Kora...
• He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be. -- Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)
• He who gives up freedom for security deserves neither.
• He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.
• The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between a five-dollar bill and a whip deserves to learn the difference on his own back -- as, I think, he will.
  -- Francisco d'Anconia, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_...
• Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
  -- Montesquieu...
• Beware the man who makes cream with his mouth; he winds up making butter with his nose.
  -- Babbaluche the cobble...
• It is not good for a man to be without knowledge, and he who makes haste with his feet misses his way.
  -- Proverbs 19:2...