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Fantine1 quote
Life has killed the dream I dreamed. — Fantine · 2012Monica Geller1 quote
Welcome to the real world. It sucks. You’re gonna love it. — Monica Geller · 1994Robert Burns1 quote
O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I! — Robert Burns · 1786Robert W. Service1 quote
Just have one more try-it's dead easy to die,
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard. — Robert W. Service · 1912Samuel Johnson1 quote
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and a little to be enjoyed. — Samuel Johnson · 1759Thomas Flatman1 quote
There's an experienced rebel, Time,
And in his squadrons Poverty;
There's Age that brings along with him
A terrible artillery:
And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown,
Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down. — Thomas Flatman · 1682