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To: Brown Deer; Conserev1
Ignorance is bliss, dude!

Only where 'tis folly to be wise, my friend. Apparently your correction is not going to be humbly accepted, which would speak to having honorably served.

"To each his suff'rings: all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan,
The tender for another's pain;
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise."

(Thomas Gray, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College")

2,837 posted on 07/05/2013 6:32:04 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Honorably discharged, Sgt E-5, US Army, 1962)
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To: imardmd1

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury


2,840 posted on 07/05/2013 6:36:14 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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