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How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold The small, rare volume, black with tarnished gold!
-- John Ferriar (1764-1815) -- Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania, Line 137...
How're you going to do it? Upgrade It!
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
-- Marcus Aureliu...
How sad and bad and mad it was! But then, how it was sweet!
-- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Confessions, ix...
How sad, dear brother, you make me wish I were an only child.
-- Data to Lore, "Datalore", stardate 41242.4...
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
-- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book i, Chap. lii...
How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage?
-- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- To Thomas Hume...
How sharper than a hound's tooth it is to have a thankless serpent.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Lear -- Act i, Sc. 4...
How should long girls be courted?" "The same as the short ones.

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