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• And choose an author as you choose a friend.
  -- Earl of Roscommon (1633-1684) -- Essay on Translated Verse, Line 96...
• Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose
  but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need....
• Hoover: Ralph, A. Janey, A. And Lisa, for your, ahem, essay "Jebediah Springfield
  Super Fraud", F. Lisa: But it's all true. Hoove...
• The teacher asked three boys to write an essay. She said, "Write on what you would do if you had a million dollars, and bring it in tomorrow.
  So the next day the three little boys came in. She said to the first boy, "Percy, this is a nice essay on what you'd do with a million dollars....
• Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 15...
• There 's no such thing in Nature; and you 'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw.
  -- Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire (1649-1720) -- Essay on Poetry...
• You have perhaps heard the story of the four students-- British, French, American, Canadian-- who were asked to write an essay on elephants.
  The British student entitled his essay "Elephants and the Empire....
• Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 261...
• Quote #404 My devil's dictionary definition for an Intelligent Agent is a query program with a user interface that is so obscure that you must anthropomorphize it in order to account for its behavior.
  -- Jaron Lanier [in his [4]Karma Vertigo essay] ( One can extend this quip to any kind of AI....