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• How fortune brings to earth the oversure! -- Francesco Petrarch
• Who naught suspects is easily deceived. -- Francesco Petrarch
• A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. -- Francesco Petrarch
• The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
  -- Francesco Petrarch...
• The man who raises his voice first has lost the argument.
• If you want to do it, do it! -- Francesco Scavullo (from his father)
• Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epitaph on the Hon. S. Harcou...
• Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them
  o ruin his own fortune brings. -- William Shakespeare...
• Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's Wife, he would have written Sonnets all his life? -- Byro