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"Life, after all, is a dream of little more than fifty years, and, whatever one does for a living, it is not difficult to stay so brief a course." sublime

• manmal 9y ago
  Would you mind describing what the last few words mean?
  • B1FF_PSUVM 9y ago
    "stay the course" is mostly nautical, means keep going straight, i.e. staying on the wanted direction despite small variations of wind or waves.
  • solidsnack9000 9y ago
    Because life is not too long, we should be able to keep on track the whole while -- it's not outside our power.
  • archagon 9y ago
    "Dude, can you just not be evil for like 50 years?"