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• Among mankind money is far more persuasive than logical argument. -- Euripide
• There is one god, greatest among gods and men, neither in shape nor in thought like unto mortals.
  -- Xenophanes of Colophon (c.570-c.475 BCE) "Fragments" No. 23...
• In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent, Vol. i, p. 516...
• Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of,--a blessing that money cannot buy.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 21...
• There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it.
  Only the wisest of people achieve the second. -- Logan Pearsall Smith...
• Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. -- Abel Steve
• To their own second thoughts. -- Mathew Henry (1662-1714) -- Commentaries, Job vi
• The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapo
  oot and flame, poisons and poverty, yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly, that may I die if I would change places with the Persian King....
• Leave no stone unturned. -- Euripide