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• Drink and dance and laugh and lie Love, the reeling midnight through For tomorrow we shall die!
  (But, alas, we never do.) -- Dorothy Parker, "The Flaw in Paganism...
• Alas, should is not would.
• Alas! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gai
  The heart can ne'er a transport know That never feels a pain....
• Alas for love, if thou wert all, And naught beyond, O Earth!
  -- Felicia D. Hemas (1794-1835) -- The Graves of a Household...
• Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arra
  Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warra...
• Alas, a virgin no more: I've lost my Himem...
• Alas, `It' has gone limp, and `it' won't get up.
• Alas, Poor Yorick, I think you're dead.
• Alas, poor yorliK, I knew him backwards.