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• Death is an eternal sleep.
• Children have more need of models than critics. -- Joseph Joube
• Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. -- Joseph Addiso
• And oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make a fault the worse by the excuse
  As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault, Than did the fault before it was so patch'd....
• Why is it that political leaders don't seem to have all the answers until they write their memoirs?
• No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could more astonish the world than our declaration of war against Holland in 1672.
  -- Sir William Temple (1628-1699) -- Memoirs, Vol. ii, p. 255...
• In any given miscalculation, the fault will never be placed if more than one person is involved.
  -- Merle P. Marti...
• That if weak women went astray, Their stars were more in fault than they.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Hans Carvel...
• If more than one person is responsible for a miscalculation, no one is at fault.
  -- The RPCISPE's Seventeenth Universal Law...