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• There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange. -- Thomas W. Lamont (29 Oct 1929)
• My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death.
  One or the other of us has to go. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- in Frank Harris Oscar Wilde...
• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd
  indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible....
• Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Imitation of Horace, Book iii, Ode 29, Line 71...
• I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
  A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing - a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil....
• Naught venture naught have. -- Thomas Tusser (c. 1515-1580) -- October's Abstrac
• So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
  (Executed by beheading.) ~~ Sir Walter Raleigh, d. October 29, 1618...
• The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
  -- Thomas Paine...
• If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
  -- Augustine's Law Number XXII -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...