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• Every roof is agreeable to the eye until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women and hard-eyed husbands and deluges of lethe, and the men ask, 'What's the news?' —  Essays — Second Series
• Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy lethe. —  Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher
• Sign'd in thy spoil and crimson'd in thy lethe. —  The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar
• By subtracting one atom of water from its elements we change this to ether, the new-found _lethe_ of pain. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
• Heaven knows our separation had not been long, and many an unkind slap has the Mother given me in the bygone; yet the mere sight of her was tonic, a lethe of troubles, a sedative for tired nerves; and I gazed that morning at the illimitable blue, the great, unfettered road to everywhere, the ever-varied, the immutable, the thing which was before everything and shall be last of all, in an ecstasy of affection. —  Gulliver of Mars

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