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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. -- Jerry Chi...
And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass, And in your blissful errand reach the spot Where I made One--turn down an empty Glass.
-- Omar Khayyam (died...
And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
-- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Ill Ome...
And when the physician said, "Sir, you are an old man," "That happens," replied Pausanias, "because you never were my doctor.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax...
And when they ask me, 'What are you looking at?' I always tell them, nothing much".
And when they've given you their all, some stagger and fall.
After all it's not easy beating your heart up against some mad bugger's wall. -- Roger Wate...
And when with envy Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You 'll in your girls again be courted, And I 'll go wooing in my boys.
-- Thomas Percy (1728-1811) -- Winifreda (1720)...
And when you stick on conversation's burrs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- A Rhymed Lesson, Urania...
And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.
-- William Shakespeare...
And where you are ain't no good unless you can get away from it.

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