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    “Approval of what is approved of
    Is as false as a well-kept vow.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “Death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mold it, learn from it.”
    —John Gilling, British screenwriter. Dr. Knox (Peter Cushing)

    “The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)