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To be bowed by grief is folly Naught is gained by melancholy Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

Alcaeus

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Alcaeus
Comedy Writer
Poet
Mytilini
Alcaeus Comicus
Grief
Pain
Bowed
Naught
Sense
Steep
Better
Gained
Thinking
Melancholy
Folly
Drinking

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