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“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.”
― Dante Alighieri

“A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications; he finds himself assailed by partial and ill-humored criticism; one man finds fault with the plan, another with the style, a third with the precept which strives to inculcate; and they who cannot succeed in finding fault with the book, employ themselves in stigmatizing its author: they maliciously rake out from obscurity every little circumstance which may throw ridicule upon his private character or conduct and aim at wounding the man since they cannot hurt the writer.”
― Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk

“I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“Did I miss?" you asked.

"You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon."

"I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh