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    “He that seeks trouble never misses.”
    —17th-Century English proverb, first collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

    “The language I have learnt these forty years,
    My native English, now I must forgo,
    And now my tongue’s use is to me no more
    Than an unstringèd viol or a harp.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A moody child and wildly wise
    Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
    Which chose, like meteors, their way,
    And rived the dark with private ray.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)