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• We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
  -- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach...
• Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity. -- Ebner-Eschenbach
• In youth, if we are lucky, we learn. In age, if we are wise, we understand. -- Ebner-Eschenbach
• We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
  -- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach...
• All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed.
  Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident....
• Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Say what you like, aardvarks are still first in my book.
• First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do. -- Epictetu