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• The bed is split up to the skin. Misfortune.
• Misfortune shows those who are not friends. -- Aristotle
• Split personality? Who, us?
• Give us, O give us, the man who is cheerful in his work!
  Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness....
• To let understanding stop at what can be understood is a high attainment.
  Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. -- Chuang Tse XXIII...
• Penetration under the bed. He loses his property and his ax Perseverance brings misfortune.
• No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
  -- Martial...
• Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor.
  It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the hands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation....
• To Split, or not to Split: that is the question. -- Amoeba