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• People who pursue their own intellectual interests for purely personal reasons are more likely to benefit the rest of the world than are people who try to act for the public good.
• T is not for nothing that we life pursue; It pays our hopes with something still that 's new.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Aurengzebe, Act iv, Sc. 1...
• Nobility is the one only virtue. -- Juvenal (47-138 AD) -- Satire viii, 20
• Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you. -- John Dryde
• What precious drops are those Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Conquest of Granada, Part ii, Act iii, Sc. 1...
• For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose, The best good man with the worst-natured muse.
  -- Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) -- An allusion to Horace, Satire x, Book i...
• She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Persius, Satire v, Line 246...
• No man ever became extremely wicked all at once. -- Juvenal (47-138 AD) -- Satire ii, 83
• If God is all-knowing, does he know how it feels to be ignorant?