Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. Discuss
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Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. Discuss
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Robert Louis Stevenson
This simple accident of falling in love is as beneficial as it is astonishing. Discuss
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Edgar Allan Poe
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow. Discuss
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John Milton
How gladly would I meet
Mortality my sentence, and be earth
Insensible! how glad would lay me down
As in my mother’s lap! Discuss
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