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• SMILEY :+) Carl Friedrich Gau
• Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. -- Carl Friedrich Gau
• Here lies my wife: her let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.
  -- John Dryden, epitaph intended for his wife...
• Excuse me, Sir, said a surveyor to a person in the street, I am a surveyor and I wonder if you could please help me by holding this measuring tape for a second or two.
  In most cases the stranger would oblige. And the surveyor, who was Horace de Vere Cole, an arch-joker during the 1920s would go around the corner to ask another person to hold the other end of the tape....
• Am I dying or is this my birthday?" (When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside.
  ) ~~ Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964...
• Once again dread deed is done. Canon sleeps, his all-knowing eye shaded to human chance and circumstance.
  Peace reigns anew o'er Pine Valley, but Canon's sleep is troubled....
• Though I am always in haste, but never in a hurry.
  -- John Wesley (1703-1791) -- Letters (1831), December 10, 1777...
• Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
  (Spoken to her husband of 9 months, Rev. Arthur Nicholls....
• Q: "Data may have sacrificed himself for me. Why?" Picard
  That is his special nature...to learn the lessons of humanity well....