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• Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise. -- James Thomson (1700-1748) -- Hymn, Line 118
• This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf,-- That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 498...
• The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Wife of Bath, Her Prologue, Line 298...
• But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taugh
  but first he folwed it himselve....
• Linus was the instructor of Hercules in music, but having one day reproved his pupil rather harshly, he roused the anger of Hercules, who struck him with his lyre and killed him.
  -- Bulfinch's Mythology...
• Who is John Galt? Do you know the legend of Atlantis?
  ... The Isles of the Blessed ... Atlantis was a place where hero spirits lived in a happiness unknown to the rest of the world....
• Before he went off to the wars, King Arthur locked his lovely wife, Guinevere, into her chastity belt.
  Then he summoned his loyal friend and subject Sir Lancelot....
• There is one God, but which one is He?