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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. -- Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729)
• Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviou
  o love her was a liberal education. -- Sir Richard Steele (1671-1729) -- Tatler, No. 49...
• Methusalem might be half an hour in telling what o'clock it wa
  but as for us postdiluvians, we ought to do everything in haste...
• The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.
• If all the ladies bend over, I would be very happy.
• Life is NOT a spectator sport!
• Necessity, mother of invention. -- William Mycherley (c.1640-1716) "Love in a Wood" (1671)
• He is not worthy of the honeycomb that shuns the hive because the bees have stings. -- Shakespeare
• Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. -- Old Testament -- Psalm xix, 10