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• The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true.
  They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all...
• Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?
  Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh....
• Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
  -- John Barrymore - last word...
• All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow. -- Buddha
• On the shore lies Neptune's own crystal trident.
• On wings of winds came flying all abroad." -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr.
  Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 218...
• I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King John -- Act iv, Sc. 2...
• Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
  -- George Orwell...
• Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.