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• This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo and Juliet -- Act ii, Sc. 2...
• Fortune finishes the great quotations, #21 Shall I compare thee to a Summer day?
  No, I guess not....
• Fortune finishes the great quotations, #2 If at first you don't succeed, think how many people you've made happy.
• A flower, when offered in the bud, Is no vain sacrifice.
  -- Isaac Watts (1674-1748) -- Divine Songs, Song xii...
• Fortune finishes the great quotations, #12 Those who can, do.
  Those who can't, write the instructions....
• Fortune finishes the great quotations, #3 Birds of a feather flock to a newly washed car.
• Fortune finishes the great quotations, #9 A word to the wise is often enough to start an argument.
• Fortune finishes the great quotations, #6 "But, soft!
  What light through yonder window breaks?" It's nothing, honey. Go back to sleep....
• Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove An unrelenting foe to love
  And when we meet a mutual heart, Come in between and bid us part?...