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• In men this blunder still you find,-- All think their little set mankind.
  -- Hannah More (1745-1833) -- Florio, Part i...
• And it does matter. An honest man or woman is an honest man or woman more because he or she is honest in the small
  everyday things that "don't matter" individually, but which make up a well-lived life, than because of some single great temptation that was passed....
• Kent: Well, what do you say to the accusation that your group has been causing more crimes than it's been preventing?
  Homer: Oh, Kent, I'd be lying if I said my men weren't committing crimes....
• Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and history and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.
  -- Vice President Dan Quayle...
• It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well
  and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water....
• One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocea
  a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service....
• Kent: Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy sack-beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?
  Homer: Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent....
• There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a christian on his death bed.
  -- Hannah More...
• No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale.
  The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it....