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• This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side.
  I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them....
• Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A.
  Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A.
  Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• A "critic" is a person who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative people.
  There is logic in this; he is unbiased-- he hates all creative people equally....
• Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
  Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage....
• Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why.
  Then do it. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing--with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...