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• Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Thomas Fulle
• A poet only writes about the things he cannot do.
  -- A canard, sung by Meg in The One Love of My Life, -- in Lerner's and Lowe's Brigadoo...
• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
  They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave....
• He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
• A man can have two, maybe three love affairs while he's married.
  After that it's cheating. -- Yves Montand...
• No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate one and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other.
  You cannot serve God and riches. -- Matthew 6:24...
• And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
  -- Isaac Watts (1674-1748) -- Divine Songs, Song xv...