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• A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- The Wandering Pilgrim...
• The ends justify the means. -- after Matthew Prio
• Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart, And often took leave, but was loth to depart.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- The Thief and the Cordelie...
• The end must justify the means. -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Hans Carvel
• They talk most who have the least to say. -- Matthew Prio
• His noble negligences teach What others' toils despair to reach.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Alma, Canto ii, Line 7...
• For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Solomon on the Vanity of the World, Book iii, Line 102...
• From ignorance our comfort flows. The only wretched are the wise.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- To the Hon. Charles Montague...