"Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born."
— Matthew Prior

January 1, 1970

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Poets from EnglandDiplomats of the United KingdomChief Secretaries for Ireland
Original Language: English

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Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 240; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).