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How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

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There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

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If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.

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Now comes the evening of the mind. Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood.

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Agriculture embraced Industry, Mammothly, on public walls. Meanwhile we camped out underneath Great smiles on billboards fading.

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Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

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A man once asked to shake hands with me, the greatest Englishman who ever lived. I replied, F**k off, I'm Irish.

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

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Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions.

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Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.

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Do you know what I like about the Irish team ? They are the only team to who come off at the end of the game and ask "Who won ?".

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For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

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When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

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Hell has no benefits, only torture.

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Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven

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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.

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... If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is Weakness That plea therefore With God or Man will gain thee no Remission.

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Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light

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To measure life learn thou betimes, and know Toward solid good what leads the nearest way;...

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...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

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