Francis Herbert

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    True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
    —F.H. (Francis Herbert)

    Connie, all my life I kept trying to go up in society where everything was legal, straight.... But the higher I go the crookeder it becomes. Where the hell does it end?
    Mario Puzo, U.S. author, screenwriter, and Francis Ford Coppola, U.S. director, screenwriter. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino)

    Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store,
    Though foolishly he lost the same,
    Decaying more and more,
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)