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• Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followe
  To some she gives honour without deserving, To other some, deserving without honour....
• Fortune is a woman. It is necessary, if you wish to master her, to take her by force before she has a chance to resist.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.
• There was a general whisper, toss, and wriggle, But etiquette forbade them all to giggle. -- Byro
• Deliberate provocation of mystical experience, particularly by LSD and related hallucinogens, in contrast to spontaneous visionary experiences, entails dangers that must not be underestimated.
  Practitioners must take into account the peculiar effects of these substances, namely their ability to influence our consciousness, the innermost essence of our being....
• Such a good friend that she will throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
  -- Charles Count Talleyrand (1754-1838)...
• Deliberate provocation of mystical experience, particularly by LSD and related hallucinogens, in contrast to spontaneous visionary experiences, entails dangers that must not be underestimated.
  Practitioners must take into account the peculiar effects of these substances, namely their ability to influence our consciousness, the innermost essence of our being....
• Can you handle some PLEASURE?
• Who can all sense of others' ills escape, Is but a brute, at best, in human shape. -- Juvenal