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• Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel 's but a ninny
  Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle....
• Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love.
  The first was when it realized that our earth was not the center of the universe, but only a speck in a world-system of a magnitude hardly conceivable....
• Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near i
  But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it....
• As clear as a whistle. -- John Byrom (1691-1763) -- Epistle to Lloyd, I
• The point is plain as a pike-staff. -- John Byrom (1691-1763) -- Epistle to a Friend
• One life,--a little gleam of time between two Eternities.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Heroes and Hero-Worship, The Hero as a Man of Lette...
• How many science fiction writers -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Two, but it's actually the same person doing it. He went back in time and met himself in the doorway and then the first one sat on the other one's shoulder so that they were able to reach it....
• Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence?
  Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress?...
• GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons.
  It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest....