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• Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
  -- Carl Sandburg...
• Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer, then you find there is nothing in it.
• Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
  -- James Huneke...
• A thrifty housewife always peels potatoes twice.
• Life is like an onion; layer upon layer upon layer, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth, and it makes you want to cry.
  -- Pink...
• So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- The Daisy, Stanza 24...