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• In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), Chap. xlviii...
• It was a custom with Apelles, to which he most tenaciously adhered
  never to let any day pass, however busy he might be, without exercising himself by tracing some outline or other,--a practice which has now passed into a proverb....
• War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince
  and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted....
• Dr. Jekyll had something to Hyde.
• The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms. -- Richard Bentley (1662-1742) -- Sermons, vii, Works, Vol.
  iii, p. 147 (1692)...
• To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king.
  However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust....
• Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
  -- Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) -- Commentaries, Vol. i, Book i, Chap. xviii, Section 472...
• It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 77...
• With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
  -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 5...