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• I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and so on.
  They are all upper-crust here. -- Thomas C. Haliburton (1796-1865) -- Sam Slick in England, Chap....
• In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- That Everything is to be undertaken with Circumspection, -- Discourses, Book iii, Chap....
• I'll be judge, I'll be jurry," said cunning old Fury
  I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death....
• In a good old age. -- Old Testament -- Genesis xv, 15
• No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
  If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time....
• Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be
  or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be...
• What is the first business of one who studies philosophy?
  To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows....
• A man of strife and a man of contention. -- Old Testament -- Jeremiah xv, 10
• A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xv, 13