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By hoke ne by croke. -- John Skelton (c. 1460-1529) -- Colyn Cloute, Line 1240
By hooke or crooke. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. xi
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book vi, Line 247...
By kicking all the crooks out of government we could easily solve that problem and also at the same time bring about a new one
a significantly higher unemployment rate. It often happens that those...
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. -- Latin Proverb
By letting go, it all gets done. -- Tao Te Ching
By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.
-- P. J. Plauger, from his April Fool's column in April 88's Computer Language...
By magic numbers and persuasive sound. -- William Congreve (1670-1729) -- The Mourning Bride, Act i, Sc.
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By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven.
The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed. -- Adolph Hi...

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