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• A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. -- James Monroe
• It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry Jame
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  -- La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)...
• quux: /kwuhks/ [Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent verb quuxo, quuxare, quuxandum iri
  oun form variously `quux' (plural `quuces', anglicized to `quuxes') and `quuxu' (genitive plural is `quuxuum', for four u-letters out of seven in all, using up all the `u' letters in Scrabble)....
• 3 Fish. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
  1 Fish. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones....
• Life's little mystery: How can a two pound box of candy make you gain 5 pounds?
• The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No.
  There was a fire in the room." -- William Hazlitt, Conversations of James Northcote Esq.R.A....
• Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats -- approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.