"If little else, the brain is an educational……" — Tom Robbins

"If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game."

— Tom Robbins

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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. — Karen Armstrong
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they… — Aeschylus
This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at… — James L. Buckley
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. — Albert Camus
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune. — Miguel de Cervantes
Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it. — George Carlin
Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer! — Louis Untermeyer
Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,… — George Arnold
Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will! — William Shakespeare
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and… — Horace

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