Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
--Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)
(In Leonard Roy Frank's
_Quotationary_ [2001], "Pride")
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
--Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
_On the Middlesex Election_ [1771] (speech)
We are quite ignorant of the real power of our
habits until we try to give them up.
--C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
_Letter to Mrs. Percival Wiseman_ [May 26, 1942]
Death slew not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
--Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
_An Epitaph Upon Sir Philip Sidney_ [1591], Line 20
There is no education like adversity.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
_Endymion_ [1880], Chapter 61
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