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January 23, 2012
That the rules are sometime ill observed, may be true; but is nothing against the system. The members of an University may, for a season, be unmindful of their duty. I am arguing for the excellency of the institution.
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January 23, 2012
He had gone to a country school where he had learned to read and write but that it was wiser not to; …
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January 23, 2012
'Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead,'
The Misfit continued, 'and He shouldn't have done it. He thrown
everything off balance. If He did what He said, then its nothing
for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He
didn't, then its nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes
you got left the best way you can--by killing somebody or burning
down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but
meanness,' he said and his voice had almost become a snarl.
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January 23, 2012
As is the case with all good things in life
-- love, good manners, language, cooking -- personal creativity is required only rarely.
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January 23, 2012
2nd AVVOCATO: If this be held the highway to get riches,
May I be poor
3rd AVVOCATO: This 's not the gain, but torment.
1st AVVOCATO: These possess wealth, as sick men possess fevers,
Which truer may be said to possess them.
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January 23, 2012
If thou hast wisdom, hear me, Celia.
Thy baths shall be the juice of July-flowers,
SPirit of roses, and of violets,
The milk of unicorns, and panther's breath
Gathered in bags, and mixed with Cretan wines.
Our drink shall be prepared gold and amber,
Which we will take, until my roof whirl round
With the vertigo: and my dwarf shall dance,
My eunuch sing, my fool make up the antic.
Whilst we, in changed shapes, act Ovid's tales,
Thou like Europa now, and I like Jove,
Then I like Mars, and thou like Erycine,
So of the rest, till we have quite run through
And wearied all the fables of the gods.
Then will I have thee in more modern forms,
Attired like some sprightly dame of France,
Brave Tuscan lady, or proud Spanish beauty;
Sometimes unto the Persian Sophy's wife,
Or the Grand Signor's mistress; and for change,
To one of our most artful courtesans,
Or some quick Negro, or cold Russian;
And I will meet thee in as many shapes:
Where we may so transfuse our wandering souls,
Out at our lips, and score up sums of pleasures.
-- Volpone
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January 23, 2012
Nano the dwarf espouses the modem idea that small things are cute:
First for your dwarf; he's little and witty,
And everything, as it is little, is pretty.
-- Volpone
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January 23, 2012
At certain times of crisis during the year the lord could call on all of his tenants - free and unfree - to leave their own farming and work for him, plowing, mowing, or reaping. These movable works, called boons or benes, were the longest preserved of all work services. In return, the lord gave food, drink, or money, or sometimes all three. Benes were classified accordingly - the alebidreap and the waterbidreap, when the lord gave ale or water; the hungerbidreap, when the villagers were obliged to bring their own food; the dryreap, when there was no ale.
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January 23, 2012
At the same time the falconer trained the falcon to recognize a crane's call by slitting a crane's larynx and blowing into it.
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January 23, 2012
dick jokes from 1200AD:
The threat had no effect on John, who cooly answered that he did not care if his son were hanged, since had had 'the anvil and hammer with which to forge still better sons.'
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