"Clothes make the man, naked persons have very little effect on society" - Mark Twain<BR?<BR?
"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born." - Ronald Regan<BR><BR>
     "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)<BR><BR>
     "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to
     liberty." - Eugene McCarthy
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     "The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop." - P. J. O'Rourke
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     "I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put
     your name at the top." - An English Professor, Ohio University<BR><BR>
     "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot<BR><BR>
     "Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact
     you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all
     entanglements. Lock it up save in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark,
     motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
     To love is to be vulnerable." - C.S. Lewis
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     "I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the
     hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him." <BR><BR>
 - Mark Twain (1835-1910)<BR><BR>
     "A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to
     rain." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)<BR><BR>
     "Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something." - Thomas A. Edison<BR><BR>
     "A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." - Robert Frost<BR><BR>
     "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits."  - Woodrow Wilson<BR><BR>
     "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)<BR><BR>
     "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." - Winston Churchill (1874-1965)<BR><BR>
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot  <BR><BR>

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Walter Bagehot<BR><BR>

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot<BR><BR>

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Walter Bagehot<BR><BR>

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot<BR><BR>

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot<BR><BR>

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
Walter Bagehot, "Biographical Studies", 1863<BR><BR>

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