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• With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good
  but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief....
• Surely happiness is reflective like the light of heave
  and every countenance, bright with smiles and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror, transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and evershining benevolence....
• While the engineer developed his thesis, the director leaned over to his assistant and whispered, "Did you ever hear of why the sea is salt?
  "Why the sea is salt?" whispered back the assistant....
• Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver has made precious. -- Ovid
• Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.
  He, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice....
• To intervene is to spread burning oil onto troubled waters.
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
  -- William Shakespeare...
• A woman's life is a history of the affections. -- Washington Irving