“Fairness doesn't govern life and death. If it did, no good man would ever die young.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
“Bacchus, ever fair and ever young.”
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 54.
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