I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.