“Soon fades the spell, soon comes the night;
Say will it not be then the same,
Whether we played the black or white,
Whether we lost or won the game?”

— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Sermon in a Churchyard, st. 8 (1825)

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