Again

posted on 6/02/2010 10:42:00 AM

I tell you this, and I tell you plain:
What you have done, you will do again;
You will bite your tongue, careful or not,
Upon the already-bitten spot.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

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The Merchant of Venice

really liked it

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

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