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Go 'way! You're bothering me!
Liar, n.:
A lawyer with a roving commission.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
-- Sean O'Casey
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic
enough worrying about what's happening now.
-- Lauren Bacall
"I quite agree with you," said the Duchess; "and the moral of
that is -- `Be what you would seem to be' -- or, if you'd like it put
more simply -- `Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it
might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not
otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be
otherwise.'"
-- Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland"
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention,
and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Harris's Lament:
All the good ones are taken.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because
people refuse to see it.
-- James Michener, "Space"
Thursday, 27 August 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
