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Long ago I did discover
It was fine to be a lover,
But the heartache and the worry spoil the game:
Now I think, like an old vandal,
That the game's not worth the candle—
And I know some other vandals think the same.

— Victor Daley

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Six days he does no work, and
The seventh takes for rest.

Life is a web with many broken ends:
Then why, O friend, be sad?
Good is not near so good as it pretends;
Bad is not half so bad.

Other Bards I envy not —
Room there is for all, God wot —
All I ask is room for me
On the top branch of the tree.

My Fairy Godmother (1902)

I do not care for men
To point with pride at me;
A model citizen
I do not wish to be.

O reader, deem me not a sham,
For I in purple earnest am!

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