England head to Nice for Saturday’s third-place playoff after yet more semi-final disappointment but with heads held high having played their part in a wonderful game featuring some particularly harsh luck.
If you're on social media at all, and follow many news sources, you're bombarded with stories of other people's successes […] This generates a Reality Distortion Field in which everyone else appears to experience 95% success and 5% struggle.
ſince they meaſure our deſerts so meane,
That in conceit beare Empires on our ſpeares,
Affecting thoughts coequall with the cloudes,
They ſhalbe kept our forced followers,
Til with their eies they view vs Emperours.
There be alſo appertaining unto Verbs, two Supines, the one ending in um, which is called the firſt Supine, becauſe it hath the ſignification of the Verb Active: as, Eo amatum, I go to love: and the other in u, becauſe it hath for the moſt part the ſignification of Paſſive, as Difficilis amatu, hard to be loved.