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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...
• John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), _For Righteousness' Sake_ (1855)
• If of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, `It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see
  `It is, but hadn't ought to be.' -- Francis Brett Harte...
• Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
  The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptio...
• Things have not been getting better since the day of the discovery of the ball point pen that writes underwater.
• You know Marge, getting old is a terrible thing. I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my Dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at the age of four.
  -- Homer, "Moaning Lisa...
• Schrodinger might have been here.