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• Narrator: While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
  Homer: 'Tis some visiter, Narrator: I muttered, Home...
• While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
  -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....
• Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.
  -- Charles William...
• Broken Hearts repaired while you Sleep!
• Narrator: Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, Home
  Sir, Narrator: said I, Homer: or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore...
• As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,-- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
  -- Edgar A. Poe (1809-1849) -- The Rave...
• Why are there so many gnarly limbs on my family tree?
• In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burde
  I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me....