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• A hat not much the worse for wear. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- History of John Gilpi
• It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)...
• The world really isn't any worse. It's just that the news coverage is so much better.
• It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me.
  What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit!...
• If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them, so of course it kills them.
  The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places....
• I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair.
  Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?...
• Agree with them now, it will save so much time.
• Original quip on the space telescope we all like so much.
  A few articles were posted in sci.astro.hubble but nobody could read them....