Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.
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The Stark Munro Letters
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
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The Importance of Being Earnest
by
Oscar Wilde