Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!
Alfred de MussetWhat I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.
Alfred de MussetThe most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
Alfred de Musset