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• From ignorance our comfort flows. The only wretched are the wise.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- To the Hon. Charles Montague...
• War hath no fury like a non-combatant. -- Charles Edward Montague
• Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- An English Padlock...
• Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrives She builds our quiet as she forms our live
  Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven....
• The ends justify the means. -- after Matthew Prio