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  -- Roger Ascham (ca. 1550)...
• I stood on the leading edge, The eastern seaboard at my feet.
  "Jump!" said Yoko Ono I'm too scared and good-looking, I cried....
• If the GOOD die young, I wonder why I am still here.
• Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire i, Line 89...
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• I would sooner be notorious than unknown.
• Are you a parent? Do you sometimes find yourself unsure as to what to say in those awkward situations?
  Worry no more... Good children always obey. Quit acting so childish....
• Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. -- Richard Henry Dana
• On the old "You Bet Your Life" program, Groucho Marx was getting to know one of his contestants.
  The man told Groucho that he had 10 children. "Why so many children?...