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• Be commonplace and creeping, and you will be a success. -- Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
• Two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it.
  the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it. -- Thomas Love Peacock...
• It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
  -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchai...
• Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'etre oblige de'en pleurer.
  (I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep....
• That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.
  -- Charles Chincholles, "Pensees de tout le monde...
• We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. -- Peter De Vrie
• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to reassure us.
  -- Jean-Pierre de Caussade, eighteenth-century Jesuit prie...