HAL: If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work,
But when they seldom come, they wished-for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet

Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 211ff (1.2.211-212) (1597)
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