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• It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. -- Aeschylu
• The elephant is never won with anger. -- Earl of Rocheste
• He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she
  And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fulness of perfection lies in him....
• A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. -- Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) -- On the King
• One whose existence relies heavily on the solidity of others.
• I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him
  I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God....
• Here lies one whose name was writ in water. -- John Keats (1795-1821)
• And ever since the Conquest have been fools.
  -- Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) -- Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country...