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• Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting. Burmese Proverb
• Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
  And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow....
• Win or lose, you lose.
• Hasten to laugh at everything lest you be obliged to weep.
• Beware the one behind you.
• St. Patrick was a gentleman who through strategy and stealth drove all the snakes from Ireland.
  Here's a toasting to his health -- but not too many toastings lest you lose yourself and then forget the good St....
• Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 266...
• Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out. Jewish Proverb