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• Our necessities are few but our wants are endless. -- Anon.
• The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
  -- Jonathan Swif...
• I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.
  To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt....
• Our crude civilization engenders a multitude of wants, and law-givers are ever at their wit's end devising.
  The hall and the theater and the church have been invented, and compulsory education....
• The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. -- Socrates (470?-399 B.C.)
• Peace" is when nobody's shooting. A "just peace" is when our side gets what it wants. MAUDLIN
• Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of our best people. -- George Ade
• Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form.
• Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
  -- Walt Whitma...