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Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.
Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.
Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
