Sobering Words with Fir

These words of wisdom (so called by Fir himself) are for every occasion, to put people’s minds in their proper place, and remind them that not everything about life is ‘joy and romance.’

In an abundance of friends, there is no need for enemies.

1693

If you believe you are the most unfortunate man in the world, you are wrong. There are many creatures as unfortunate as you.

1693

A conglomeration of joy and romance, life is certainly not. It is rather a conglomeration of many unnerving and beguiling happenstances which I have yet to understand.

1716

In need of words of wisdom is every man created. Without it, they would be nothing. With it, they are a little more than nothing, but still as useless.

1712

Wisdom is one aspect of life that every man needs and every man claims to desire, but that every man is perfectly devoid of while being perfectly content with that fact that they are so.

1720

A wife has a way of making her man’s life joyous and daunting at the same time.

1725

There is no man so blessed, or so utterly weary, as the man with eight daughters.

1726

If for a thousand years I had the chance to live, I would rather prefer to die.

1719

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