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• From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Stanza 7...
• Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'T is only noble to be good.
  Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood....
• Man makes history, he makes himself. -- Vere Gordon Childe.
• Excuse me, Sir, said a surveyor to a person in the street, I am a surveyor and I wonder if you could please help me by holding this measuring tape for a second or two.
  In most cases the stranger would oblige. And the surveyor, who was Horace de Vere Cole, an arch-joker during the 1920s would go around the corner to ask another person to hold the other end of the tape....
• Fortune presents: USEFUL PHRASES IN ESPERANTO, #5.
  Mi ^cevalovipus vin se mi havus I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse....
• And topples round the dreary west A looming bastion fringed with fire.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, xv, Stanza 5...
• O last regret, regret can die! -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, lxxviii, Stanza 5
• Who battled for the True, the Just. -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, lvi, Stanza 5
• Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, xxxii, Stanza 1...