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    “Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men’s preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men’s wills such as men would have them.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)

    “O shining Popocatapetl, It was thy magic hour:

    The houses, people, traffic seemed
    Thin fading dreams by day;
    Chimborazo, Cotopaxi
    They had stolen my soul away!”
    —Walter James Turner (1889–1946)

    “No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.”
    —Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)