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• A book is the only immortality. -- Rufus Choate
• Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?
  If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer....
• If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
  Let him step to the music he hears however measured and far away. Henry David Thoreau...
• There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop
  -- Rufus Choate (1799-1859) -- Speech before the New England Society, Dec. 22, 1843...
• A song for our banner! The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her statio
  "United we stand, divided we fall!" It made and preserves us a nation!...
• Example is always more effacious than precept. Samuel Johnson [letter, 1859]
• 0: Numeric zero, as opposed to the letter `O' (the 15th letter of the English alphabet).
  In their unmodified forms they look a lot alike, and various kluges invented to make them visually distinct have compounded the confusion....
• Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune. -- Kin Hubbard