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• Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. -- Charles G. Dawe
• In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. -- Robert G. Ingersoll
• Quote #392 "And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ?
  Let them take arms ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants....
• What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
  -- Charles Baudelaire...
• The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
  -- G. K. Chesterto...
• Quote #463 "I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.
  -- Lord Macaulay....
• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
  Let them take arms!" -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Letter to Colonel W. S. Smith, 1787...
• Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. -- Charles Reade