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• A remarkable race are the Persians; They have such peculiar diversions.
  They make love the whole day In the usual way And save up the nights for perversions....
• I'm floating in a most peculiar way.
• The day divides the nights. Nightime devours the day.
• You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.
• To be normal is to have the usual eccentricities.
• Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books.
  These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are....
• Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.
  (1862) -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)...
• I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
  -- Blaise Pascal...