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• So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. -- Samuel Johnso
• Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because he has achieved so much -- the wheel
  New York, wars and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time....
• Best of all he liked to sleep. Sleeping was a very important activity for him.
  He liked to sleep for longish periods, great swathes of time....
• The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money.
  True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day....
• A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight fo
  othing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself....
• Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan.
  Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth....
• A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. -- Montaigne
• He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man. -- James Beattie (1735-1803) -- The Hermi