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• Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
  It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies....
• You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
  -- Frank Crane...
• To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
  To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation devoutly to be wish'd....
• We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgement.
• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own.
  He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a teacher. -- Ben Johnso...
• May those who love us, love us, and those who don't love us, may God turn their ankles so that we'll know them by their limping.