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• Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. Portuguese Proverb
• Visits always give pleasure: if not on arrival, then on the departure.
  -- Edouard Le Berquier, "Pensees des Autre...
• ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it.
  Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption....
• And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable.
  -- Doonesbury...
• Elevators traveling in the desired direction are always delayed and on arrival tend to run in pairs, threes of a kind, full houses, etc.
  -- Pete Maike...
• What is done with joy is always better done. -- H. L. Mencke
• Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind!
  What though my winged hours of bliss have been Like angel visits, few and far between....
• A pessimist is always frustrated, for when they take joy in having proved that there is no joy they have contradicted themself and must start all over again.
• Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli...