Brandy and water spoils two good things.
-- Charles Lamb
-- Charles Lamb
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- Brandy-and-water spoils two good things.
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Charles... - The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth,
and have it found out by accident. -- Charles... - Call things by their right names.... Glass of brandy and water!
That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask... - Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Charles... - The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it,
is composed of two distinct races: then men who borrow... - The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it,
is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow... - Call things by their right names... Glass of brandy and water!
That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask... - Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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Charles... - My motto is, "Contented with little, yet wishing for more."
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Charles...
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- Where do you find 100 talking invertebrates?
The US... - Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!
Robin... - Continual dropping wears away a stone.
-- Lucretius (95-55 BC)
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De Rerum Natura, i,... - The changes of the year were once a blessing Well, this year they're the
seasons of my discontent But I cannot rewrite my old diaries I can only
recall all the things that came and went.
Crash... - Un chasseur sachant chasser chasse sans son chien.
[A hunter who knows how to hunt hunts without his dog...
