If Only. Those Must Be The Two

Although You Feel Relief Now, This Is Likely To Be The Source Of Many Sleepless Nights For You. You Will Lie Awake, Look Upon Your Heart, And Find It Unlovely. You Will Be Certain That (...) You Are The Greatest Of Monsters. This Is A Good Thing; Although You May Forgive Yourself, You Must Never Come To Think That Your Actions Were In Any Way Justifiable. But- (...) Being A Sane, Honorable Human Being Is Not Always Comfortable.

If It Is Stupid But It Works, It Isn't Stupid. (a Shin'a'in Saying)

If Only. Those Must Be The Two Saddest Words In The World.

The Dragonets Found The Carpenters To Be Even More Fascinating Than The Furniture, And Followed The Poor Men From Pen To Pen, Crowding Around To Watch, Tasting The Wooden Planks, Trying To Steal The Tools. It Made For An Interesting Day For Everyone, As The Boys Tried To Keep The Dragonets Away From The Carpenters, And The Dragonets Tried To Get At The Carpenters, And The Carpenters Worked Probably A Great Deal Faster Than They Ever Had In Their Lives, Sure That The Dragonets Would Go From Tasting The Wood To Tasting Them.

Mister Cameron - I Have Read The Unexpurgated Ovid, The Love Poems Of Sappho, The Decameron In The Original, And A Great Many Texts In Greek And Latin Histories That Were Not Though Fit For Proper Gentlemen To Read, Much Less Proper Ladies. I Know In Precise Detail What Caligula Did To, And With, His Sisters, And I Can Quote It To You In Latin Or In My Own Translation If You Wish. I Am Interested In Historical Truth, And Truth In History Is Often Unpleasant And Distasteful To Those Of Fine Sensibility. I Frankly Doubt That You Will Produce Anything To Shock Me.