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Be good and you will be lonely.
——Mark Twain 

Even the gods love jokes.
——Plato 

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? 
——Shakespeare 

The hatred of those who are near to us is the most violent.
——Tacitus 

Ring out the old, ring in the new; Ring happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let me go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
——Tennyson 

There is no more fatal blunder than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. 
——Thoreau 

Do well and you will have no need of ancestors. 
——Voltaire 

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
——William Tecumnseh Sherman 

It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
——Seneca 

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. 
——Samuel Johnson 

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
——18th century proverb 

... the worst cowardice.

This book is sweet ...

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