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• Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet.
  Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete....
• He who walks on burning coals is sure to get burned. -- Sinbad
• Lovejoy: I know one of you is responsible for this.
  So repeat after me: If I withhold the truth, may I go straight to Hell where I will eat nought but burning hot coals and drink naught but burning hot cola -- [all the kids recite in unison] Ralph...
• And when with envy Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You 'll in your girls again be courted, And I 'll go wooing in my boys.
  -- Thomas Percy (1728-1811) -- Winifreda (1720)...
• If you fail to plan, plan to fail.
• I 'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.
  The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable....
• Macb. If we should fail? Lady M. We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we 'll not fail.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act i, Sc. 7...
• If at first you don't succeed, try again - if you still fail, give up - no sense being a damn fool about it.
  -- W.C. Field...