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• When among apes, one must play the ape.
• Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have .
  ..a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the character and conduct of their rulers....
• ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape
  for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play....
• OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
  All acting is simulation, and the word _simulation_ is from _simia_, an ape...
• Man is more an ape than many of the apes.
• One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
  -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes vii, 28...
• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Among my Books, First Series, Dryde...
• INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
  The introduction attains its most malevolent development in this century, being, indeed, closely related to our political system....