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Epigram—Commissary Goldie’s Brains

Robert Burns

LORD, to account who dares thee call,
Or e’er dispute thy pleasure?
Else why, within so thick a wall,
Enclose so poor a treasure?




Quotes of the Day

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
• Martin Luther King Jr.


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    Of a Woman, Dead Young
    by Dorothy Parker
    If she had been beautiful, even, Or wiser than women about her, Or had moved with a certain defiance; If she had had sons at her sides, And she with her hands on their shoulders,