We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
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If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, 'It might have been, More sad are these we daily see It is, but hadnt ought to be.
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And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.
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A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
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