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• So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable
  and no man is useless while he has a friend. -- Robert Louis Stevenso...
• The worst is not so long as we can say "This is the worst." -- King Lea
• The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
• I loved her with a love thirsty and desperate. I felt that we two might commit some act so atrocious that the world, seeing us, would find it irresistable.
  -- Gene Wolfe, "The Shadow of the Torture...
• The worst is not So long as we can say, "This is the worst.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Lear -- Act iv, Sc. 1...
• We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes. -- Sir Winston Churchill
• You waited so long to heed us, earthdeirdre, Almost we pruned you, as we may yet prune your branches.
  -- Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with Plane...
• We the unwilling, led by the ungrateful, are doing the impossible.
  We've done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do something with nothing....
• That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way as us.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...