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• The point is plain as a pike-staff. -- John Byrom (1691-1763) -- Epistle to a Friend
• Quote #184 "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of the pox !
  "That, my Lord, depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress" -- -- John Wilkes to The Earl of Sandwich, Parliament, November 1763 Now that's so much of a classic I am near-ashamed to include it in here....
• God bless the King,--I mean the faith's defender! God bless--no harm in blessing--the Pretender!
  But who pretender is, or who is king,-- God bless us all!...
• Urban Cowboy I apologize clear back to the first time I ever hit ya. --John Travolta
• Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.
  -- John Byrom (1691-1763) -- Advice to Preach Slow...
• Oh whistle, and I 'll come to ye, my lad.
  -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Whistle, and I 'll come to ye...
• Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigued, I said; Tie up the knocker!
  ay I 'm sick, I 'm dead. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr....
• All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
  All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good...
• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. -- Frank Lloyd Wrigh