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• For I swore I would stay a year away from her; out and alas!
  but with break of day I went to make supplication. -- Paulus Silentarius, c. 540 A.D....
• If voting should change anything, there would be a law against it.
• Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldom.
• He who would prove all life, leaves it empty. To know the way of everything is to be left with the geometry of things and with the substance of nothing.
  To reduce the world to an equation is to leave it without head or feet....
• Alas, a virgin no more: I've lost my Himem...
• Alas, `It' has gone limp, and `it' won't get up.
• Alas, Poor Yorick, I think you're dead.