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• Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mou
  And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born....
• Abra was ready ere I called her name; And though I called another, Abra came.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Solomon on the Vanity of the World, Book ii, Line 364...
• He helde about him alway, out of drede, A world of folke.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Troilus and Creseide, Book iii, Line 1721...
• Till their own dreams at length deceive 'em, And oft repeating, they believe 'em.
  -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Alma, Canto iii, Line 13...
• All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity
  but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible....
• Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters." -- Ross Presser ======================================================================== All men dream
  but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity...
• The pomps and vanity of this wicked world. -- Book of Common Prayer -- Catechism
• The rising world of waters dark and deep.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iii, Line 11...
• And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iii, Line 686...