“Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid.”
Source: The Progress of Error (1782), Line 240.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. V
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“Paris, the FedEx deliveryman of Pleasure and Fatality.”
Source: The Darkest Seduction
On the Supreme Court's decision to cancel 2G spectrum licences, as quoted in Telecom sector not to lay 'golden egg' for a while, thanks to Supreme Court: Kapil Sibal http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-04-03/news/38248797_1_telecom-sector-golden-egg-apex-court, The Economic Times (3 April 2013)
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago
“And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.”
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Epicurus laid down the doctrine that pleasure was the chief good.”
Epicurus, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 10: Epicurus
Song lyrics, Under the Red Sky (1990), T.V. Talking Song
