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Friday, January 12, 2018

Post #2490

Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either ; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction least ; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.
—William Wycherley

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A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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