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• The pomps and vanity of this wicked world. -- Book of Common Prayer -- Catechism
• To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tales of the Hall, Book iii, Boys at School...
• For never, never, wicked man was wise.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ii, Line 320...
• The Book says BURN and DESTROY repent and redeem and revenge and deploy and rumble thee forth to the land of the unbelieving scum 'cause they don't go for what's in the Book and that makes 'em BAD.
  -- Frank Zappa...
• As hard as you try, the book cannot be closed.
• Repent At Leisure: Marion Hayste
• KORAN, n. A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Rotten wood cannot be carved. -- Confucius (Analects, Book 5, Ch. 9)