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• When a group of newsmen go out to dinner together, the bill is to be evenly divided among them, regardless of what each one eats and drinks.
  -- Jack Germond...
• Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room
  and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own....
• Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance
  or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions....
• Once there was this conductor see, who had a bass problem.
  You see, during a portion of Beethovan's Ninth Symphony in which there are no bass violin parts, one of the bassists always passed a bottle of scotch around....
• Cato instigated the magistrates to punish all offenders, saying that they that did not prevent crimes when they might, encouraged them.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Roman Apophthegms, Cato the Elde...
• When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
  -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)...
• Solon used to say that speech was the image of actio
  ... that laws were like cobwebs,--for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fa...
• They spend years searching for their natural parents, convinced their parents will be happy to see them.
  I mean, really, can you imagine someone being happy to see an orphan?...
• Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth.
  But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on 't, in the world, than they are....