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• I would give the Devil benefit of the law for my own safety's sake.
  -- _A_Man_for_All_Seasons_ by Robert Bol...
• And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- To the Quee...
• I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war.
  -- John Milto...
• The thousand doors that lead to death. -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Religio Medici, Part i, Sect.
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• I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
  -- Sir Winston Churchill...
• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
  Thomas Jefferson [letter,1807]...
• All that 's bright must fade,-- The brightest still the fleete
  All that 's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest....
• The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Preface to Corruption and Intolerance...