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#6404A Tale of Two Cities LITE(tm)
-- by Charles Dickens

A man in love with a girl who loves another man who looks just
like him has his head chopped off in France because of a mean
lady who knits.

Crime and Punishment LITE(tm)
-- by Fyodor Dostoevski

A man sends a nasty letter to a pawnbroker, but later
feels guilty and apologizes.

The Odyssey LITE(tm)
-- by Homer

After working late, a valiant warrior gets lost on his way home.
#6405After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H.L. Mencken, on Shakespeare
#6406Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
-- William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"
#6407All generalizations are false, including this one.
-- Mark Twain
#6408All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that
makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and
an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
-- Samuel Beckett
#6409All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from
the mouths of people who have had to live.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
#6410"... all the modern inconveniences ..."
-- Mark Twain
#6411All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.
-- Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice"
#6412Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain
#6413Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
-- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
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