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  •    A little season of love and laughter, Of light and life, and pleasure and pain, And horror of outer darkness after, And dust returneth to dust again. Then the lesser life shall be as the greater, And the lover of life shall join the hater, And the one thing cometh sooner or later, And no one knoweth the loss or gain.

    - Adam Lindsay Gordon
    'The Swimmer', stanza10, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).

  • De duobus malis minus est semper eligendum. Of two evils the lesser should always be chosen.

    - StThomas a' Kempis
    c.1413  De Imitatione Christi, bk.3, ch.12, section 2.

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