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• With that she dasht her on the lippes, So dyed double red
  Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lips that bled....
• Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth.
  But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on 't, in the world, than they are....
• Two rules we should always have ready,--that there is nothing good or evil save in the will
  and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them....
• Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iii, Chap. x...
• It's our fault. We should have given him better parts.
  -- Jack Warner, on hearing that Reagan had been elected governor of California....
• Content to follow when we lead the way.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book x, Line 141...
• He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap....
• We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it.
  It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge....
• Should we tell the children when we move?