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• Sentences should be written in the active voice when giving instructions, so that the subject of the action can be identified clearly.
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• A man devoid of religion, is like a horse without a bridle.
• Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely. I confess I do not admire naked boys.
  They always seem to me to need clothes--whereas one hardly sees why the lovely forms of girls should ever be covered up....
• 1. Some folks have it, some don't. 2. Those who have it would be devastated if it were ever cut off.
  3. Those who have it think that those who don't are somehow inferior....
• Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by i
  but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control....
• When traveling, the sages say, one must always be prepared to accept local customs.
  Yet there are areas of this very kingdom where one might find it customary to tax a wizard into poverty...
• A group of soldiers being prepared for a practice landing on a tropical island were warned of the one danger the island held
  a poisonous snake that could be readily identified by its alternating orange and black bands....
• When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them?
  -- W. H. Aude...