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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:01:40 -0800
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- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: Re: ULTIMATE NON-MATHEMATICAL QUOTE FROM DONNE
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- > : Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one;
- > : Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot
- > : A constant habit;
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- > : Then somewhere else he says "at round earth's imagined corners".
- > : What a total imbecile.
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- > : tushar
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- > > Not at all - it's a poetic interpretation of the equation
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- > i.pi
- > > e = -1
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- Should be without regard. What's done is done.
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- We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it.
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- She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice
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- Remains in danger of her former tooth.
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- But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,
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- If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
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- It were done quickly. If the assassination
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