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• My pen is at the bottom of a page, Which, being finished, here the story end
  'Tis to be wished it had been sooner done, But stories somehow lengthen when begun. -- Byro...
• And often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffer'd.
  My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sigh...
• If there had ever been a time when I could have given my own life to save her I would have done it.
  ... -- Avo...
• phase of the moon n. Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend.
  Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine....
• Well begun is half done
• No sooner had Edger Allen Poe Finished his old Raven, then he started his Old Crow.
• The real trouble with telling a fairly decent story which will make people laugh is that someone in the group of listeners will be reminded of another story which will completely undo what has just been done.