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• When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Last Rose of Summe...
• All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, iv, 44...
• A rose is a rose is a rose.... ----'--,-{@
• Alone at last!
• The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.
  -- Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839) -- The Rose that all are praising...
• The rose of yore is but a name, mere names are left to us.
• A rose is not a rose when it's a brick.
• Last summer, it was easy to spot the NOUVEAUX RICHES.
  They were the ones were watering their lawns with coffee....
• My girlfriend and I sure had a good time at the beach last summer.
  First she'd bury me in the sand, then I'd bury her....