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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. -

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. – Alexander Smith

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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. – Alexander Smith

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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. – English Proverb

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The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. – Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942

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Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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