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    [W]e should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Musick, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions. The heart thus lightened, our pillows would be soft, and health and long life would attend the happy scene.
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    The lightning—it is good for you. Your father was Frankenstein, but your mother was the lightning. She has come down to you again.
    W. Scott Darling, and Erle C. Kenton. Ygor (Bela Lugosi)