To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
Charles Godfrey Leland
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“The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.”
“Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.”
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| Roald Dahl, Novelist (1916) |
| Lincoln Davis, Politician (1943) |
| Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach, Novelist (1830) |
| Oliver Evans, Inventor (1755) |
| Julius Charles Hare, Clergyman (1795) |
| Robert Indiana, Artist (1928) |
| Goran Ivanisevic, Athlete (1971) |
| Bill Janklow, Politician (1939) |
| Maurice Jarre, Composer (1924) |
| Samuel Alexander, Philosopher (1938) |