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• You 'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage
  And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by....
• Little strokes fell great oak
• Little strokes fell great oaks.
  -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757...
• Mamma, don't let your babies grow up to be hackers.
  -- Willie Nelson, with a little help from Bill Mathew...
• Even a blind pig stumbles upon a few acorns.
• We grow small by trying to be great. -- E. Stanley Jone
• Home is the place you grow up in and want to leave, only to get a little older and grow fond of coming back to.
• When I grow up I want to be a little boy. -- Joseph Helle
• The little mind who loves itself, will write and think with the vulga
  but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence....