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• It has all been very interesting." --Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer, 1689-August 21, 1762
• I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
  -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu...
• Cynic:] A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
  -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1892)...
• Everything costs more and takes longer. -- Pournelle's Law of Costs and Schedule
• Promising costs nothing, it's the delivering that kills you.
• Remember the poor - it costs nothing. -- Josh Billing
• Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lie
  And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eye...