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Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
-- Joachim Du B...
Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Ode on Solitude...
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books.
-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Life of Frederick the Great, Book xvi, Chap. i...
Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
-- Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) -- The Art of Poetry, Canto i, Line 75...
haque: /hak/ [USENET] n. Variant spelling of {hack}, used only for the noun form and connoting an {elegant} hack.
hat is a {hack} in sense 2. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
HARANGUE, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue- outang.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
HARBOR, n. A place where ships taking shelter from stores are exposed to the fury of the customs.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Hard as a piece of the nether millstone. -- Old Testament -- Job xli, 24
hardcoded: adj. 1.
hardcore signature virus: "As a juror in a Trial by Jury, you have the right, power and duty to acquit the defendant if you judge the law itself to be unjust.
-- John McPherson, mcpherso@macvax.ucsd...

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