What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid
himself among women.
-- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
-- Dedication to Urn-Burial, Chap. v
himself among women.
-- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
-- Dedication to Urn-Burial, Chap. v
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Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn... - Quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn... - Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Dedication to Urn... - I look upon you as gem of the old rock.
-- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
-
Dedication to Urn... - Times before you, when even living men were antiquities,
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O'Brien:
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By sleeping what it is to die,
And as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed... - He hath riches sufficient, who hath enough to be charitable.
Sir Thomas... - No man can lose what he never had.
-- Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
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The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap....
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Uhura: "Did you see the way they *ate*?"
Chekov:
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at a certain time,
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militant lesbian feminists
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Iris... - Anything anybody can say about America is true.
--
Emmett...
