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- A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- What is left when honor is lost?
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
- In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), "Esquire", June 1960
- Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well that Ends Well", Act 5 scene 3
- A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Love's Labour's Lost", Act 5 scene 2
- They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Love's Labour's Lost", Act 5 scene 1
- He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Love's Labour's Lost", Act 5 scene 1
- A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Love's Labour's Lost", Act 1 scene 1
- All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
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