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My lady, there are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

- SirJ(ames) M(atthew) Barrie
  What Every  Woman Knows (published1918), act 2.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

- Martin LutherJr King
  Speech at Cornell College, Mt Vernon, Iowa. Reported in the Wall Street  Journal,13 Nov.

It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to makethantobuy.Thetaylordoesnot attempttomakehis ownshoe†All ofthemfind itfor their interestto employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some advantage over their neighbours and to purchase with a part of its produce†whatever else they have occasion for† What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom† Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland?

- Adam Smith
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.4, ch.2.

If you work very hard, and give life everything you've got, you may not quite make it.

- Elwy Yost
  Comment,17 Jan.