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To: E who wrote (238)9/10/1998 3:46:00 PM
From: flickerful  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 13018
 
ah yes...prosperity.

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

~ Aldous Huxley ~



To: E who wrote (238)9/10/1998 4:35:00 PM
From: Robert C. Petersen  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13018
 
E,

Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.....H.L. Mencken



To: E who wrote (238)9/10/1998 5:06:00 PM
From: Robert C. Petersen  Respond to of 13018
 
E,
A French twofer:::::
I prefer an accomodating vice to an obstinate virtue.

Moliere

The vices help make virtues just as poisons help make medicines. Diluted and blended correctly, they are quite useful against the evils of life........Francois de La Rochefoucauld


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