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• He tried the luxury of doing good.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book iii, Boys at School...
• And took for truth the test of ridicule.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book viii, The Siste...
• Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book xvii, The Widow...
• Cut and come again. -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales, Tale vii, The Widow's Tale
• Another, yet the same. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Dunciad, Book iii, Line 90
• Am I in GRADUATE SCHOOL yet? -- Zippy the Pinhead
• To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why
  To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by....
• A wicked book cannot repent.
• And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 565...