on voice

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "On vocals" is the only form I've noticed,

Me, too.

> and it's strange enough.

But we're accustomed to it.

_Privychka svyshe nam dana / Zamenu schastiiu ona_

As Pushkin put it.

*VERY* roughly:

"The ability to get used to stuff is what God has given us in place of
happiness."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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