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• The maid who modestly conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveal
  Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whate'er the Grecian Venus was....
• From thousands of our undone widows One may derive some wit.
  -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- A Trick to catch the Old One, Act i, Sc. 2...
• Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
  (Maxim 180)...
• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.
  We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul....
• Yes sir. No sir. No excuse sir. Sir, may I ask a question.
  Sir, may I make a statement. -- The five reponses a West Point Cadet may give to a superior -- during the Plebe year....
• You may give a man an office, but you cannot give him discretion. -- Poor Richard
• We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. -- Karl Poppe
• Defense network computers. New, powerful. Hooked into everything.
  Trusted to run it all. They say it got smart. A new order of intelligence....