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  Our antagonist is our helper. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol....
• Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselve
  and He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill....
• There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish.
  To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. -- Edmund Burke...
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• Chang: "What would your favorite author say, 'Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings.
  ' Tell us your sad story, Kirk." -- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8...
• And Abner said to Joab, "Let the young men come forward and play before us.
  Joab answered "Yes, let them." So they came up one by one, and took their places, twelve for Benjamin and Ishbosheth and twelve from David's men....
• Custom reconciles us to everything. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- On the Sublime and Beautiful, Sect.
  xviii, Vol. i, p. 231...
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• FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity.
  He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent....