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'I know not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in Gaol
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.'
--Oscar Wilde (The Ballad of Reading Gaol)

For those that don't know Wilde's story, he was sentenced to prison for the
sin of arrogance.

StanB

'A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is
absolutely fatal.'
--Oscar Wilde (The Critic as Artist, Pt. 2)

'The very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their
panegyrists'
--Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon)

'Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather for
how their acts are defined. This is why men are more interested in
better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.'
--Thomas Szasz (The Second Sin)

'There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest
us.'
--F. H. Bradley

It seems a little odd that Booz is, even now, interested in Bourbaki's
posts.

Mark