“ At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. ”
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students.]
~ Hector Berlioz
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud
Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.
...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.
