Thing 14: Posted from Google Docs

One of my favourite quotations:

Sooner or later I too may passively take the print
Of the golden age — why not? I have neither hope nor trust;
May make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint,
Cheat and be cheated, and die: who knows? We are ashes and dust.

(Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Maud, Part I)