User:WatchingOptical
Hello there, weary traveler! I offer you not rest or refreshment, but knowledge that I am the one responsible for RPing the nation of Duominzu. It's filled with a colorful, ethnically diverse snake race called Aurians. You should check both of them out.
Now then, have some quotes and poems, because I love quotes and poems:
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"Surely he reflected and guessed; but may he be cursed how he plotted."
—The Quran, Chapter 74
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"There are those who said this day would never come. What have they to say now?"
-The Prophet of Truth, Halo 2
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"I? I am a monument to all your sins."
-The Gravemind, Halo 2
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"Spit and rage, you foolish pawn! My safety is assured. Come, join the chorus! Let me sing your bitter words."
-The Gravemind, Cut Quote from Halo 3
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"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."
-Mewtwo, Pokemon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back.
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"For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up."
-Ecclesiastes 4:10, KJV
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"Regret is such a short word... and yet it stretches on forever."
-Ranata Suzuki
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"You were the brightness
in my life
you were the keeper
of my heart.
You then took the light
and I fell apart."
-Gravemind, Poet
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[Lonely traveler]
"My travels take me places far and wide, it takes me up steep cliffs and rowing past river sides. While my travels are fun, I still feel rather lonely. My only company is a trusty flute on which I play a wistful tune. I've met many people and I've made many friends, but in the end I must leave them all in a great haste. I wish to forget my past along my winding, endless path.
My travels haven taken me places far and wide, but the steep cliffs and river sides can never hide my lonely heart."
-A Poetic Friend
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"I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."
-Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias"
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Pages for me to look at later:
https://tep.wiki/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll