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• The ends justify the means. -- after Matthew Prio
• That if weak women went astray, Their stars were more in fault than they.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Hans Carvel...
• If the end does not justify the means - what can? -- Edward Abbey
• Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- A Better Answe
• A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- The Wandering Pilgrim...
• Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mou
  And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born....
• They talk most who have the least to say. -- Matthew Prio
• There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
  That is the point at which the negation of Catholicism and the negation of Liberalism meet and keep high festival, and the end learns to justify the means....