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• It will be advantageous to cross the great stream .
  .. the Dragon is on the wing in the Sky ... the Great Man rouses himself to his Work....
• A superior man modest about his modesty May cross the great water. Good fortune.
• She's his possession. If Hugh'd been discovered making off with the spoons, Sinistrad'd probably be just as mad.
  -- Haplo, "Dragon Wing...
• every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself.
  The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his....
• It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do.
  It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work...
• To do great work work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. -- Samuel Butle
• It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself.
  For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential. -- Robert Morley...
• Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
  -- Jacques Cousteau, 'Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence'...