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• The only rose without thorns is friendship.
• There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
  -- Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Two Travellers, Chap. ii, Fable vi...
• Twixt the optimist and pessimist The difference is droll
  The optimist sees the doughnut But the pessimist sees the hole....
• A rose is a rose is a rose.... ----'--,-{@
• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity
  an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)...
• A rose is not a rose when it's a brick.
• And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
  -- Kahlil Gibra...