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• Any line, however short, is still too long. -- Sam's Axiom (1)
• In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue?
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Review of Seybert's Annals of the United States, 1820...
• The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 244...
• For specialization is a process that begins as an attempt to develop experts who will then inform the whole body.
  It can end, however, and sometimes does, in the removal of any inclination to question the supposed "experts"- who themselves are sometimes not all that expert....
• Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. SAVILE
• How many new men -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  None. The consensus of opinion appears to be that there is no such thing as a genuine new man, and in any event, the media, who like telling us what we all like, have declared that women don't really go for new men anyway, but instead prefer more masculinity nowadays....
• A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
  Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort....
• Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. -- Luca
• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any force, that thoughts rule the world.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Progress of Culture...