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#6444F.S. Fitzgerald to Hemingway:
"Ernest, the rich are different from us."
Hemingway:
"Yes. They have more money."
#6445Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is
oblivion.
-- Mark Twain
#6446Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain
#6447Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
-- "Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
#6448For a light heart lives long.
-- Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
#6449For courage mounteth with occasion.
-- William Shakespeare, "King John"
#6450For the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven levels,
each delved into a hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall
was a gate.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Return of the King"

[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to system overview.]

#6451For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel. And if one can
neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one?
-- Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse"

[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to powerfail recovery.]
#6452For years a secret shame destroyed my peace--
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.
-- Justin Richardson.
#6453Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
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