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• For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these
  It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) _Maud Muller_ [1856]...
• For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these
  It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) -- Maud Muller, st. 53...
• The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.
  -- John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892, U.S. poe...
• Of all tales 't is the saddest,--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xiii, Stanza 9...
• We shall be judged, not by what we might have been, but what we have been.
  -- Reverend William Sewell...
• But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all
  idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names....
• oid suff. [from Greek suffix -oid = `in the image of'] 1.
  Used as in mainstream slang English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance....
• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
  -- Francis Baco...
• The saddest moment in a person's life comes only once. -- Brendan Franci