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• Often things ARE as bad as they seem!
• Things are not always what they seem. -- Phaedru
• Things are seldom what they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream. -- W. S. Gilbe
• If the life of natural things, millions of years old does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred?
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Things are not always what they seem. -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book iv, Fable 2, 5
• Things are not as bad as they seem - they're worse.
• Tell me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!
  For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem....
• Tell me what upsets you. Small minds are often distressed by little things...