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• The best thing for being sad, replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something.
  That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds....
• The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something.
  That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds....
• coefficient of X n. Hackish speech makes heavy use of pseudo-mathematical metaphors.
  Four particularly important ones involve the terms `coefficient', `factor', `index of X', and `quotient'....
• One of the most important things to remember about infant care i
  ever change diapers in midstream. -- Don Marqui...
• You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
  -- Franklin P. Jone...