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Should the poor be flattered?—Shakespeare.

A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart; But it's innocence and modesty That polishes the dart.

Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.

England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.

Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy.

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.

England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.

Three arguments (triadic) should be avoided where possible. More than three (polyadic) requires very special justification—and then shouldn't be used anyway.

Flag arguments are ugly. Passing a boolean into a function is a truly terrible practice.

If its dependencies are inverted, it has an OO design. If its dependencies are not inverted, it has a procedural design.

One of the more common motivations for writing comments is bad code.

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Some have suggested that in using the latter his inspiration may have been the Lena, a river in eastern Siberia.

The expanded version takes up nearly eighty pages in Volume I of his collected works.

how did he come to be elevated to membership of the Bolshevik Central Committee?

comes into the world proclaiming the need for and possibility of profound change.

This became the generally accepted Russian Marxist position.

socialist movement via the Third International,

The book was a pleasure to write, and I thought it both original and good, though what was original about it was not necessarily good, and what was good about it was not always original.

Less than half an hour passed before he buzzed her from the security gate in the lobby.

I drew on Under a Green Sky and The Medea Hypothesis, by the reliably pessimistic Peter Ward

Thoreau once said, 'Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.