I should many a good day have blown my brains out but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law, and even then if I could have been certain to haunt her - but I won't dwell upon these trifling family matters
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "about around and underneath" man, except man himself.
Maidens like moths are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
Absence - that common cure of love.
For truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
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