add matthew arnold quote

[lib.git] / signature_stuff / quote.txt

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@@ -917,3 +917,14 @@ First you take a drink,
 then the drink takes a drink,
 then the drink takes you.
  -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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+It can sometimes happen that a scholar, his task completed, discovers
+that he has no one to thank. Never mind. He will invent some debts.
+Research without indebtedness is suspect, and somebody must always,
+somehow, be thanked.
+ -- Umberto Eco "How to Write an Introduction"
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+Let the victors, when they come,
+When the forts of folly fall
+Find thy body by the wall!
+ -- Matthew Arnold