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• Visits always give pleasure: if not on arrival, then on the departure.
  -- Edouard Le Berquier, "Pensees des Autre...
• Visits always bring joy - if not in the arrival, surely in the departure!
• There is a remedy for everything; it is called death. -- Portuguese Proverb
• What is bought is cheaper than a gift. Portuguese Proverb
• Beware of a man that does not talk and a dog that does not bark. Portuguese Proverb
• The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. Portuguese Proverb
• A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other. Portuguese Proverb
• Would it give you a lot of pleasure? -- Zaphod
• ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it.
  Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption....