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 |  |  | #6524 |  | Never laugh at live dragons. -- Bilbo Baggins [J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Hobbit"]
 
 |  |  |  | #6525 |  | No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large. -- Mark Twain
 
 |  |  |  | #6526 |  | No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
 Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness
 within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.
 Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and
 doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone
 of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
 -- Shirley Jackson, "The Haunting of Hill House"
 
 |  |  |  | #6527 |  | No violence, gentlemen -- no violence, I beg of you!  Consider the furniture! -- Sherlock Holmes
 
 |  |  |  | #6528 |  | Noise proves nothing.  Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
 -- Mark Twain
 
 |  |  |  | #6529 |  | "Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none." -- Shakespeare
 
 |  |  |  | #6530 |  | Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. -- Mark Twain
 
 |  |  |  | #6531 |  | Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
 
 |  |  |  | #6532 |  | O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
 To use it like a giant.
 -- Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", II, 2
 
 |  |  |  | #6533 |  | October 12, the Discovery. 
 It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss
 it.
 -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
 
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