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Tuesday, April 22, 2003

�What is life but a veil of affliction?�
- Tobias Smollett (1721 � 1771), Scottish writer, satirist, historian, traveler and physician: �The Expedition of Humphry Clinker�, 1771.

�Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.�
- Plato (c.429 � 347 BC), Greek philosopher: �Republic�

�Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the mud, and one the stars.�
- Frederick Langbridge (1849 � 1922), English minister and poet: �A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts�, 1896.

�We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?�
- Sir No�l Coward (1899 � 1973), English dramatist, actor, producer and composer: �Blithe Spirit�, 1941.


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