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It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
-- Voltaire...
It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
-- William H. Seward (1801-1872) -- Speech, Oct. 25, 1858...
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. -- Ovid [43B.C. - A.D.18]
It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco.
It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world. -- Oscar Wilde...
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
-- Margaret Mead...
It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 499
It is a point of wisdom to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
It is a poor judge who cannot award a prize.
It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.
-- George Herbert (1593-1633) -- Jacula Prudentum...

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