“How I pity those whose childhood has been unhappy! to them one of the sweetest springs of feeling has been utterly denied, the most green and beautiful part of life laid waste.”
The Improvisatrice (1824)
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“My whole life has been a waste - I've been a failure.”
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http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-02-tyson-saraceno_x.htm
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“My life has been a total waste.”
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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-11621981-details/I'm+a+street+bum,+says+broke+Tyson/article.do;jsessionid=dZGvFJZGkLvsnbWWXZrVhsZ2kJlny8kkygtqYThr5ZL2nyWzmSjJ!-686754952
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Autobiography
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George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
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W.B. Yeats book Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 2 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/