front/motto.tex

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   5 \begin{document}
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   9 \epigraph{%
  10         The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
  11 }{%
  12         H.P. (Howard) Lovecraft
  13 }
  14 \epigraph{%
  15         \selectlanguage{russian}
  16         Рукописи не горят\\
  17         \selectlanguage{british}
  18         (Manuscripts don't burn)
  19 }{%
  20         \selectlanguage{russian}
  21         М.А. (Mихаил) Булгаков\\
  22         \selectlanguage{british}
  23         (M.A. (Mikhail) Bulgakov)
  24 }
  25 \epigraph{%
  26         You start a question, and it's like starting a stone.
  27         You sit quietly on the top of a hill;
  28         and away the stone goes, starting others;
  29         \ldots
  30 }{%
  31         R.L. (Robert) Stevenson
  32 }
  33 \epigraph{%
  34         I never thought, when I used to read books, what work it was to write them\ldots
  35         It's work enough to read them sometimes\ldots
  36         As to the writing, it has its own charms.
  37 }{%
  38         C.J.H. (Charles) Dickens
  39 }
  40 \epigraph{%
  41         als ik dan van al dat schrijven\\
  42         toch wel erg ben afgemat\\
  43         ga ik lekker zitten lezen\\
  44         o, wat heerlijk lijkt mij dat
  45 }{%
  46         H.M. (Dick) Bruna
  47 }
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  50 \end{document}