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• There 's no such thing in Nature; and you 'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw.
  -- Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire (1649-1720) -- Essay on Poetry...
• Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose
  but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need....
• A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. -- Duke Ellingto
• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Friendship...
• All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
  All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good...
• Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
  As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way....
• We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poetry
  Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine....
• The spectacles of books. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Essay on Dramatic Poetry