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My life closed twice before its close- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Emily Dickinson |

Where had I been now if the worst befell? / And here we are riding, she and I.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Robert Browning |

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Benjamin Disraeli |

I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Henry Fielding |