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• A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. -- Goethe
• The author should gaze at Noah, and ... learn, as they did in the Ark, to crowd a great deal of matter into a very small compass.
  -- Sydney, Smith, Edinburgh Review...
• If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal.
• Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- On American Deb...
• Life is a difficult in the country, and it requires a good deal of forethought to steer the ship, when you are twelve miles from a lemon.
  -- Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English clergyman and essayi...
• So from the depths of its enchantment, Terra was able to calculate a course of action.
  Here at last was an opportunity to consort with Dirbanu on a friendly basis -- great Durbanu which, since it had force fields which Earth could not duplicate, must of necessity have many other things Earth could use...
• A little neglect may breed great mischief for the want of a shah, Iran was lo
  for the want of Iran, the hostages were lost; and for the want of the hostages, I'd be lost....