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• Life teems with quiet fun.
• Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er agai
  And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain....
• Anything for a quiet life. -- Title of a play by Middleto
• Be quiet!
• When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the be
  but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over....
• Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Caius Mariu...
• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), "Walden", 1854...
• We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength.
  But there was also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant....