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A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.473, Courier Corporation

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

1884 The Duke's version of Hamlet's soliloquy, combining elements of other speeches by Hamlet and pieces of Macbeth. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.21.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.157