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• As a goatherd learns his trade by goat, so a writer learns his trade by wrote.
• As goatherd learns his trade by goat, so writer learns his trade by wrote.
• As goatherd learns his trade by goat, so writer learns his trade by wrote.
  As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing....
• He who has no mind to trade with the devil, should be so wise as to keep from his shop. -- South
• QOTD: "If he learns from his mistakes, pretty soon he'll know everything.
• He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
  -- Ralph W. Emerso...
• I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me
  hat's his. -- Empress Catherine the Grea...
• Repairmen know the tricks of the trade, but not the trade!