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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes”, p.227

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

"Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.

Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

Sir Thomas Browne, Claire Preston (1995). “Selected Writings”, p.30, Psychology Press