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• As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end.
  Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. -- Sallust (B.C. 86-34)...
• BCPL -> B -> C !!! No wonder C is so cryptic!
• andomness n. 1. An inexplicable misfeature; gratuitous inelegance.
  2. A hack or crock that depends on a complex combination of coincidences (or, possibly, the combination upon which the crock depends for its accidental failure to malfunction)....
• Many a time,... from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
  -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Act v, Sc. 2, 34, (873.)...
• After Completion. Success in small matters. Perseverance furthers.
  At the beginning good fortune, At the end disorder....
• Perhaps I have given you the wrong impression. A wizard's life is not all fame, fortune and frivolity.
  There must be periods of rest as well, when a wizard should find a safe retreat where he can seclude himself from sorcery and restore his health and vitality in the proper ascetic atmosphere....
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• All government programs have three things in common: a beginning, a muddle, and no end.
• If a person (a) is sick, (b) receives treatment intended to make him bette
  and (c) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health....