Francis Herbert

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    Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
    —F.H. (Francis Herbert)

    Hey, cut the crap! The Pope, the Holy Father himself, has this very day blessed Michael Corleone. You think you know better than the Pope?
    Mario Puzo, U.S. author, screenwriter, and Francis Ford Coppola, U.S. director, screenwriter. Dominic (Don Novello)

    Go, birds of spring: let winter have his fee;
    Let a bleak paleness chalk the door,
    So all within be livelier than before.
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)