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• I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle.
  Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Quote #184 "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of the pox !
  "That, my Lord, depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress" -- -- John Wilkes to The Earl of Sandwich, Parliament, November 1763 Now that's so much of a classic I am near-ashamed to include it in here....
• I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Lear -- Act iii, Sc.
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• At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man.
  -- _Meditations_ by Marcus Aureliu...
• I am a man More sinned against than sinning. -- King Lear in King Lear Act III Sc II li 60 Lea
• I like people better than principles, and I like people with no principles better than anything else in the world.
  -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)...
• Dare to look up to God and say, "Make use of me for the future as Thou wilt.
  I am of the same mind; I am one with Thee. I refuse nothing which seems good to Thee....
• Hereafter I'll be able to understand everything, taking all on trust. -- Tristan Corbiere
• Where am I? Who am I? Am I? I