"Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied……" — Voltaire

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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
• If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose… — Tom Robbins

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