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I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.
T. S. Eliot

A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no
responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be
themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went
in for corn. Walt Disney

CXXIX



The expense of spirit in a waste of shame

Is lust in action: and till action, lust

Is perjur\'d, murderous, bloody, full of blame,

Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;

Enjoy\'d no sooner but despised straight;

Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,

Past reason hated, as a swallow\'d bait,

On purpose laid to make the taker mad:

Mad in pursuit and in possession so;

Had, having, and in quest, to have extreme;

A bliss in proof,-- and prov\'d, a very woe;

Before, a joy propos\'d; behind a dream.

  All this the world well knows; yet none knows well

  To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.

 	--William Shakespeare