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• Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744), _The Rape of the Lock_ (1712)...
• A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night viii, Line 793...
• The boy hath sold him a bargain,--a goose. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Love's Labour 's Lost -- Act iii, Sc.
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• I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. -- Edward Moore (1712-1757) -- The Gamester, Act ii, Sc.
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• Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist.
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• A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat. -- Edward Abbey
• Don't let nobody tell you what you cannot do; don't let nobody tell you what's impossible for you
  don't let nobody tell you what you got to do, or you'll never know ....
• He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
  -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lo...