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• Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
  -- Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) -- Commentaries, Vol. i, Book i, Chap. xviii, Section 472...
• I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xiii...
• The world knows nothing of its greatest men. -- Sir Henry Taylor (1800-?
  ) -- Philip Van Artevelde, Part i, Act i, Sc. 5...
• I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book iv, Chap. xxxviii...
• I, who have so much and so universally adored this [greek], "excellent mediocrity," -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
  xiii...
• Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xx...
• If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage
  and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking,--the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr....
• I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xiii...
• I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise
  hat from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist....