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• It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations.
  They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." -- A. Lincol...
• Consider nothing as impossible before it has come to pass.
• I'm off to the queen. Shall I come too, my lord? No.
  ..better not, people might think we're friends. -- Edmund and Percy : Head...
• And it shall some to pass that idiots shall roam the earth, and morons shall rule the masses.
• Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that?
  Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!...
• But among the children of the Great Society there were those whose skins were black.
  And lo! Their portion was niggardly, and of the fatted calf they were sucking hind teat ....
• The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse.