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• The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.
  -- Tate and Brady -- cxii, 6...
• He who is most slow in making a promise, is the most faithful in the performance of it.
  -- Rousseau...
• It is not good for a man to be without knowledge, and he who makes haste with his feet misses his way.
  -- Proverbs 19:2...
• He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. -- Old Testament -- Psalm xv, 4
• Granma: Abe, I want Homer to grow up respecting his father.
  He must never know about that, that carnival incident....
• No man of honor, as that word is usually understood
  did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste and temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, or to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath....
• Untimely grave. -- Tate and Brady -- Psalm vii
• Even though one keeps his nose to the grindstone, it does not mean that he is good for anything besides cutting bread with his nose.
• He's a Fool that makes his Doctor his Heir. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)