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• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing.
  -- Samuel Butle...
• When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands.
  Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again....
• BDC: Break Down and Cry
• Sherry: Hey Bart! Our dad says your dad is incompetent.
  Bart: What does incompetent mean? Terry: It means he spends more time yacking and scarfing down donuts than doing his job....
• The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself
  he rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his....
• Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrate
  The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain....