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• Gluttony kills more than the sword.
• A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. -- Richard Burton (1577-1640)
• To approve is more difficult than to admire.
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  Although originally intended mostly as jokes, emoticons (or some other explicit humor indication) are virtually required under certain circumstances in high-volume text-only communication forums such as Usene...
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....
• The tagline is mightier than the sword.
• The future is much more difficult to predict than the past.
• Custom will often blind one to the good as well as to the evil effects of any long established system.
  -- Bishop Richard Whately...
• A thing is far more likely to be like it is now than it was before or will be in the future, although this is less likely to be true, if said of the same thing sometime later.