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    How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
    —Bible: Hebrew Lamentations 1:1.

    Said of Jerusalem.

    Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)