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If painting weren\'t so difficult, it wouldn\'t be fun.
Edgar Degas

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Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,

Some in their wealth, some in their body\'s force,

Some in their garments though new-fangled ill;

Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;

And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure,

Wherein it finds a joy above the rest:

But these particulars are not my measure,

All these I better in one general best.

Thy love is better than high birth to me,

Richer than wealth, prouder than garments\' costs,

Of more delight than hawks and horses be;

And having thee, of all men\'s pride I boast:

  Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take

  All this away, and me most wretchcd make.

 	--William Shakespeare

Henry David Thoreau
I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in
which these things would be by me unavoidable.

Government\'s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Ronald Reagan