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| When asked why he parted with his wife, Cæsar replied, "I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected." |
| ~ Plutarch, Life of Cæsar. ~ |
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| Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. |
| ~ Robert Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night. ~ |
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| Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. |
| ~ Evelyn Waugh ~ |
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| War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Omoo (1846), ch. 29, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 2, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1968). ~ |
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| There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. ~ |
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| He left a corsair's name to other times, Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes. |
| ~ Lord Byron, The Corsair. Canto iii. Stanza 24. ~ |
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| >consult guide about Vogon poetry The Guide checks through its Sub-Etha-Net database and eventually comes up with the following entry: Vogon poetry is so awful that even the Sarkopsi of Burphon XII, whose religion strictly forbids the taking of one's life, consider suicide a preferable alternative to a Vogon poetry reading. |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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