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• Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
  -- Cicero...
• Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which live was first breathed.
  .. There is granduer in this view of life ... that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being, evolved....
• All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
  -- Joseph Conrad...
• It [aviation] is a tool specially shaped for Western hand
  a scientific art which others only copy in a mediocre fashion, another barrier between the teeming millions of Asia and the Grecian inheritance of Europe, one of those priceless possessions which permit the White race to live at all in a pressing sea of Yellow, Black, and Brown....
• fuck me harder excl. Sometimes uttered in response to egregious misbehavior, esp.
  in software, and esp. of misbehaviors which seem unfairly persistent (as though designed in by the imp of the perverse)....
• fuck me harder: excl. Sometimes uttered in response to egregious misbehavior, esp.
  in software, and esp. of misbehaviors which seem unfairly persistent (as though designed in by the imp of the perverse)....
• The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad
  wicked folly of "Woman's Rights", with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety....
• INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Of all the agonies of life, that which is most poignant and harrowing- that which for the most time annihilates reason and leaves our whole organization one lacerated
  mangled heart- is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love....