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• Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. Portuguese Proverb
• Visits always bring joy - if not in the arrival, surely in the departure!
• The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
  -- Paul Valery, Mauvaises pensees et autre...
• L'extension des privileges des femmes est le principe general de tous progres sociaux.
  -- Charles Fourier, 1808...
• That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.
  -- Charles Chincholles, "Pensees de tout le monde...
• Il est souvent plus grand d'avouer ses fautes que de n'en pas commettre.
  [It is often a greater thing to confess one's errors, instead of not making them....
• Would it give you a lot of pleasure? -- Zaphod
• ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it.
  Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption....
• If you always postpone pleasure you will never have it.