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• With all its beauteous honours on its head.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iv, Line 557...
• A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 87...
• See how the world rewards its votaries. -- Gesta Romanorum -- Tale xxxvi
• The value of knowledge lies not in its accumulation, but in its utilization.
• The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown.
  It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through i...
• It is not necessary to fall into a well to know its depth.
• My grief lies onward and my joy behind.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets & other Poetry -- Sonnet l...
• Creativity in living is not without its attendant difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt.
  And the unfortunate thing about being ahead of your time when people finally realize you were right, they'll say it was obvious all along....