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• Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
  -- Joseph Addiso...
• To be resign'd when ills betide, Patient when favours are deni'd, And pleas'd with favours given,-- Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's pa
  This is that incense of the heart Whose fragrance smells to heaven....
• Of all the passions that possess mankind, The love of novelty rules most the mind
  In search of this, from realm to realm we roam; Our fleets come fraught with ev'ry folly home....
• Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence?
  Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress?...
• When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Song, From Juvenile Poem...
• Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious steps we 'll tread.
  -- Nathaniel Cotton (1707-1788) -- The Fireside, Stanza 31...
• Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and du
  Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days....
• The fault lies not with our technologies but with our systems. LEVIAN
• When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach. French Proverb