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Re:All the goodness gone from tea (1688) by wavefunction on Sunday September 24, 2017 @01:41PM (#15325664)
"Life, after all, is a dream of little more than fifty years, and, whatever one does for a living, it is not difficult to stay so brief a course."

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Re:All the goodness gone from tea (1688) by manmal on Sunday September 24, 2017 @03:14PM (#15326022)
Would you mind describing what the last few words mean?
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Re:All the goodness gone from tea (1688) by archagon on Sunday September 24, 2017 @03:40PM (#15326152)
"Dude, can you just not be evil for like 50 years?"
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Re:All the goodness gone from tea (1688) by solidsnack9000 on Sunday September 24, 2017 @03:40PM (#15326151)
Because life is not too long, we should be able to keep on track the whole while -- it's not outside our power.
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Re:All the goodness gone from tea (1688) by B1FF_PSUVM on Sunday September 24, 2017 @03:32PM (#15326116)
"stay the course" is mostly nautical, means keep going straight, i.e. staying on the wanted direction despite small variations of wind or waves.
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