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• A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Country, Cheer, Food

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• Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Fate, Sea, Rude

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.199

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• Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sports, Destiny

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse”, p.52

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• Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

  William Shakespeare

  Trifles

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.34

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• Papers should include more side remarks, open questions, and such. Very often, these are more interesting than the theorems actually proved. Alas, most people are afraid to admit that they don't know the answer to some question, and as a consequence they refrain from mentioning the question, even if it is a very natural one. What a pity! As for myself, I enjoy saying 'I do not know'.

  Jean-Pierre Serre

  Interesting, People, Answers

  Jean-Pierre Serre (2000). “Oeuvres, Collected Papers: 1985-1998”, Springer Verlag

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• Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Men, Vices

  "Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: The Conquest of Solitude".

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• Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy.

  John B. Tabb

  Boys, Joy, Babe

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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• Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a sudden crash of thunder,' said Otto. 'And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say "Yonder is . . . zer castle" a volf would be bound to howl mournfully.' He sighed. 'In zer old country, zer scenery is psychotropic and knows vot is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny vay.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Home, Eye

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• Yes, but I’ve already made my fortune in other things. (Solin) Such as? (Geary) Viagra. My brother learned to take a personal problem and profit by it. (Arik) It’s true. It pained me to see a man as young as Arik stricken with impotency. Therefore I had to do something to help the poor soul. But alas, there’s nothing to be done for it. He’s as flaccid as a wet noodle. (Solin) How creative of you to project your problem onto me. But then, they say celibacy is enough to make a man lose all reason. Guess you’re living proof, huh? (Arik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brother, Men, Creative

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• Thomas Bowman's toupee, alas, was never found. He was somewhat mollified by the gift of a very fine hat from Westcliff on Christmas day.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hats, Fine, Found

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “A Wallflower Christmas: A Novel”, p.213, Macmillan

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• Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Errors, Roots, Comfort

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• And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Waiting, Done, Matter

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• Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

  Silas Weir Mitchell

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Flower

  Silas Weir Mitchell (1896). “The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”

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• The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.

  William Wordsworth

  Running, Gratitude, Heart

  William Wordsworth, “Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman”

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• Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Compassion, Divine Justice

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• It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Competition, Stronger, Progress

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.208, Open Road Media

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• Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

  Alexander Pope

  Years, Funeral, Age

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.168

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• No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).

  Frederic Bastiat

  Order, Justice, Liberty

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.

  Thomas Adams

  Christian, Blessing, Ends

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• Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

  Thomas Gray

  Children, Parenting, Play

  'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' (1747) l. 51

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• I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heaven, Soul, Bliss

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• Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

  Horace

  Years, Fleeting, Aging

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• Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!

  John Keats

  Passion, Meek

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.111, Рипол Классик

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• I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Philosophy, Medicine, Cost

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.1987, Delphi Classics

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• We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority of scientific contributions, if scientist X hadn't achieved it that year, scientist Y would have achieved the same result or something very similar soon thereafter.

  Jared Diamond

  Science, Reality, Discovery

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