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Robert Burns Quotes: I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
         

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.


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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

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