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• If the end be well, all is well. -- Gesta Romanorum -- Tale lxvii
• Whatever you do, do wisely, and think of the consequences. -- Gesta Romanorum -- Tale ciii
• See how the world its veterans rewards! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 243...
• We read of a certain Roman emperor who built a magnificent palace.
  In digging the foundation, the workmen discovered a golden sarcophagus ornamented with three circlets, on which were inscribed, "I have expended...
• Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter perish in its fall.
  -- William Pitt (1759-1806) -- The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, No. xxxvi...
• I thought my people would grow tired of killing. But you were right, they see it is easier than trading.
  And it has its pleasures. I feel it myself. Like the hunt, but with richer rewards....
• If life is a fairy tale, I'd HATE to see nightmares!
• System/3! System/3! See how it runs! See how it runs!
  Its monitor loses so totally It runs all its programs in RPG!...
• System/3! System/3! See how it runs! See how it runs!
  Its monitor loses so totally! It runs all its programs in RPG!...