Quote #9

Drink, my jolly lads, drink with discerning, Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning; Never was owl more blind than a lover, Drink and be merry, lads, half seas over.

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  1. Two hands upon the breast, And labour's done; Two pale feet crossed in rest, The race is won.
  2. Silence sweeter is than speech.
  3. Oh my son's my son till he gets a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all her life.
  4. The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendor.
  5. There never was night that had no morn.
  6. To-morrow is, ah, whose?
  7. Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die.
  8. Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall, - So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift…

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