This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, / when we are sick in fortune,–often the surfeit / of our own behavior,–we make guilty of our / disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as / if we were villains by necessity; fools by / heavenly compulsion […]

One animal in the VP group developed cerebral infarction and showed symptoms of hemiparalysis, and was humanely euthanized by a lethal dose of pentobarbital sodium.

I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!

Jia Pingwa was born in 1952, on the twenty-first day of the second month of the lunar calendar. His birthplace is Lihua Township, Danfeng County in Shaanxi Province.