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• If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I
• The problem with losing stuff is that it always happens when you're not watching.
  Of course if you were watching I guess the stuff wouldn't get lost, would it....
• Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxiii, Line 368...
• Quote #176 Many things do not happen as they ought.
  Most things do not happen at all. It is for the conscientious historian to correct these defects....