Edwin Van Der

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    Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humoured, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.
    —C.E.M. (Cyril Edwin Mitchinson)

    There’s no law against taking off a spaceship. It’s never been done so they haven’t gotten around to prohibiting it.
    —Rip Van Ronkel, and Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988)

    Under the lindens on the heather,
    There was our double resting-place.
    —Walther Von Der Vogelweide (1170?–1230?)