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• Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly. -- St. Francis De Sale
• Some men become proud and insolent because they ride a fine horse, wear a feather in their hat or are dressed in a fine suit of clothes.
  Who does not see the folly of this? If there be any glory in such things, the glory belongs to the horse, the bird and the tailor....
• There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. St. Francis De Sale
• SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. The Duchess of Orleans relates that the irreverent old calumniator, Marshal Villeroi, who in his youth had known St.
  Francis de Sales, said, on hearing him called sai...
• No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
  -- Marguerite de Valoi...
• One day a gate breaks down between heaven and hell.
  So St. Peter arrives on the scene and calls out for the devil....
• Try to give as much as you can... Try not to expect anything in return.
• A robot who cleaned up a flat Was perfectly programmed for that, And washed every dish That a lady might wish - But vacuumed up poodle and cat.
  -- G. A. Maso...
• Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
  -- G.K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday...