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• The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.
  -- Johann von Schille...
• Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. -- Johann von Schille
• Who dares nothing, need hope for for nothing. -- Johann von Schille
• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
• You are the Filch. You have the power to Steal.
• This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
• No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Measure for Measure -- Act ii, Sc. 2...
• The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examinatio
  of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy....
• Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
  -- Friedrich von Schiller, "The Maid of Orleans", III, 6...