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Rh Those are the words that are for ever in the mouths of us all.

Unhappy human kind, let this address itself to you, I hear nothing but the echoing murmur of trifling complaints. Whoever, in like case, believes himself the hated of the gods, let him consider Hecuba, and he will render thanks for their clemency.