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• Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. Oliver Goldsmith
• Eternal sunshine settles on its head. -- Oliver Goldsmith
• But in calling Moriarty a criminal you are uttering libel in the eyes of the law, and there lies the glory and the wonder of it.
  The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every devilry, the controlling brain of the underworld....
• ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (_Musca maledicta_).
  The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us....
• A reserved lover, it is said, always makes a suspicious husband. -- Oliver Goldsmith
• I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. -- Oliver Goldsmith
• I always get the better when I argue alone. -- Oliver Goldsmith
• We are all omnibuses in which our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them stickes his head out and embarrasses us.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)...
• Here's to women. Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
  -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...