It had been easy for me to gain a temporary effect by a mirage of baseless opinion; but it is ever the trial of the scrupulous explorer to be saluted with the impatient scorn of chatterers who attempt only the smallest achievements, being indeed equipped for no other.
A problem-free life is an illusion -a mirage in the desert.
After losing Harden in 2012 and then Durant in 2016, Thunder fans were starting to worry that the early success of the franchise was a mirage.
But in its desperate search for scapegoats, the West skirts the key question: What would happen if our quest for never-ending economic growth has become a mirage?
Gordon Absher, spokesman for Mandalay owner MGM Mirage, says that decision was shaped by possible perceptions of high rollers when they are assigned to those floors.
Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
From its shores, the water shimmers and sparkles, a mirage that local farmers can see but not touch.
That view is a mirage.
But in its desperate search for scapegoats, the West skirts the key question: What would happen if our quest for never-ending economic growth has become a mirage?
For the aspiring undying, Mr Cave unfortunately concludes that immortality is a mirage.