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• Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson!
  how to die. -- Beilby Porteus (1731-1808) -- Death, Line 316...
• In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.
  -- Beilby Porteus (1731-1808) -- Death, Line 108...
• One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
  -- Beilby Porteus (1731-1808) -- Death, Line 154...
• Mammon has enriched his thousands, and has damned his ten thousands. -- South
• Ranger: ... and the cider mill operated continuously until 1941, when its workers left to fight in the second World War.
  When they returned, the old girl was just as they'd left her, only now she was infested with thousands, upon thousands of rats....
• He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. -- Beilby Porteu
• War is its own punishment.
• Trust me, thousands don't.
• Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.
  -- Clara Lucas Balfou...