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  • Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

    — Cary Grant
  • Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

    — E. B. White
  • I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

    — e. e. cummings
  • What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

    — Saint Augustine
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

    — Mark Twain
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

    — Henry David Thoreau
  • If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

    — John Cardinal
  • In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

    — Anonymous
  • Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

    — John Adams
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

    — ?Santayana?
  • What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

    — Last of the Summer Wine
  • Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

    — Terry Pratchett
  • I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

    — Terry Pratchett
  • .. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

    — Petronius (210 BC)
  • The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

    — Proust
  • So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

    — Proust "Within the Budding Grove"
  • You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

    — William J. H. Boetcker
  • Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

    — Lorna
  • No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

    — George Bernard Shaw
  • A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

    — Anon
  • Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

    — Anon
  • The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

    — Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"
  • All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

    — Thomas Carlyle "The Hero as Man of Letters"
Shows how the earlier ALGAR and PEEK lines connect
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  • Augustine Algar
    • ?
      • Michael Algar
        • ?
          • Augustine Algar (say 1605 - )
            • ?
              • Augustine Algar (cir. Sep 1635 - )
                • Johane Pearse (say 1635 - 1693)
                  • Andrew Algar (say 1660 - )
                    • Mary Courtis (say 1661 - )
                      • George Algar (cir. Oct 1684 - )
                      • Damaris Algar (cir. Feb 1686 - )
                      • Samuel Algar (cir. Jun 1690 - 1770)
                        • Sarah Lowry (say 1697 - 1754)
                          • Mary Algar (cir. Feb 1722 - )
                            • John Algar (say 1720 - )
                              • Sarah Algar (cir. Nov 1744 - Nov 1744)
                              • John Algar (1746 - Nov 1754)
                              • John Algar (cir. Feb 1755 - )
                              • Mary Algar (cir. Nov 1756 - )
                              • Sarah Algar (cir. Feb 1759 - )
                              • Elzabeth Algar (cir. Apr 1761 - )
                              • George C. Algar (cir. Mar 1764 - )
                              • Samuel Algar (cir. Jul 1766 - )
                              • William Algar (cir. Feb 1769 - )
                          • Elizabeth Algar (cir. May 1725 - cir. Apr 1763)
                            • Richard Peek (cir. Dec 1712 - cir. Aug 1778)
                              • George Peek (Sep 1753 - cir. Apr 1763)
                              • Elizabeth Peek (Apr 1757 - May 1837)
                                • Thomas Helson (1746 - bet. Mar 1826 - Mar 1826)
                              • Sarah Peek (cir. 1758 - cir. Apr 1795)
                              • John Peek (Mar 1761 - Jun 1835)
                              • William Peek (Jan 1763 - )
                          • George Algar (cir. Nov 1727 - Feb 1738)
                          • Samuel Algar (cir. May 1730 - 1785)
                            • Wilmot UnknownSurname (cir. 1730 - aft. 1786)
                              • Elizabeth Algar (cir. May 1755 - aft. 1788)
                                • William Medland (say 1755 - )
                              • Samuel Algar (1756 - Jun 1836)
                                • Elizabeth Parsons (cir. 1783 - Apr 1833)
                          • John Algar (cir. May 1733 - 1800)
                            • Joan Bowhay (1734 - 1811)
                              • Mary Algar (cir. Jan 1754 - )
                              • Sarah Algar (cir. May 1755 - )
                              • Elizabeth Algar (cir. Dec 1756 - )
                              • John Algar (cir. Apr 1758 - bef. 1768)
                              • Esther Algar (cir. Apr 1760 - )
                              • John Algar (cir. Jun 1768 - )
                          • Sarah Algar (cir. May 1735 - 1743)
                          • Elias Algar (cir. Nov 1738 - 1775)
                      • Arthur Algar (cir. Feb 1693 - )
                  • George Algar (cir. Mar 1660 - )
                  • Austine Algar (cir. Dec 1663 - 1682)
                  • John Algar (cir. Sep 1667 - Jun 1669)
                  • Johan Algar (cir. Aug 1669 - )
            • ?Jane ?Moore (say 1605 - )
              • Michael Algar (cir. Jan 1632 - )
              • George Algar (cir. Oct 1639 - )
        • ?Joane ?Lange (say 1615 - )
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