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• One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Gargantua and Pantagruel, To the Reade...
• One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
• When one considers just what man is, Happy it be that short his span is. -- James Cagney
• No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy.
  People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by....
• ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
  So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief....
• It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it. -- Oscar Wilde
• Give a man an inch, and he thinks he's a ruler.