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<br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Was all my youththe paper route after school, the stolen moments in the back seats of borrowed cars, the football workouts, the cramming for finalsmeant to end this way, dying in a muddy paddy?<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/63/63/1363.html">William Broyles, Jr</a>.</i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 28, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Silence [is] the unbearable repartee.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/63/83/5383.html">Alexander Theroux</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 27, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/100/351.html#8">Thomas Moore</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 26, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/63/74/5374.html">Tom Stoppard</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 25, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Wandering between two worlds,one dead, / The other powerless to be born.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/100/452.html#5">Matthew Arnold</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 24, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> They kept their books; they kept their faith.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/63/29/4429.html">Isaac Bashevis Singer</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 23, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/100/484.html#4">Phædrus</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 22, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> To John I owed great obligation; / But John unhappily thought fit / To publish it to all the nation / Now I and John are fairly quit.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/81/13959.html">Matthew Prior</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 21, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/100/495.html#note7">Proverbs</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 20, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> The mysterious  is the source of all true art and science.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/61/6/O0120600.html">Albert Einstein</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 19, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, / As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/100/191.html#71">John Dryden</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 18, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/63/52/3352.html">Jan Morris</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 17, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Let Hercules himself do what he may, / The cat will mew and dog will have his day.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/100/138.32.html#220">William Shakespeare</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 16, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/63/70/570.html">Hannah Arendt</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 15, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/63/96/4796.html">Maya Angelou</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 14, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Hope springs eternal in the human breast: / Man never is, but always to be blest. / The soul, uneasy and confined from home, / Rests and expatiates in a life to come.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/100/230.html#9">Alexander Pope</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 13, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Life itself is the proper binge.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/63/86/6386.html">Julia Child</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 12, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, / And all the sweet serenity of books.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/100/417.html">Henry W. Longfellow</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 11, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> Hell is other people.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/63/22/5322.html">Jean Paul Sartre</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 10, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free-will-offerings with an holy worship: the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.<br>  <i><a href="/web/20070501180345/http://www.bartleby.com/100/540.html#note44">Book of Common Prayer</a></i><br><br></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000020" size="3"><b>May 9, 2000</b></font> <br> <br clear="all"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"> I would hurl words into the darkness and wait for an echo. 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