"We quaff the cup of life with eager……" — Oscar Wilde
"We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death."
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Oscar Wilde
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