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William Shakespeare

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

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When difficulties or sadness arrive, they rarely come alone but often happen all at once, overwhelming a person. This means that troubles tend to multiply quickly rather than appearing one at a time.

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It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.