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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste?
Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not ne...
A rope lying over the top of a fence is the same length on each side.
It weighs one third of a pound per foot....
A rose is a rose is a rose. Just ask Jean Marsh, known to millions of PBS viewers in the '70s as Rose, the maid on the BBC export "Upstairs, Downstairs.
Though Marsh has since gone on to other proj...
A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly.
If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space. -- Thomas Carlyle, looking at the sta...
A sadist is a masochist who follows the Golden Rule.
A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed. Imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid.
-- Genesis, "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" I don't know what it's about. I'm just the dru...
A Scholar asked his Master, "Master, would you advise me of a proper vocation?
The Master replied, "Some men can earn their keep with the power of their minds....
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1831...

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