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Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world.
All things in heaven and earth do her homage,--the very least as feeling her care...
O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo and Juliet -- Act ii, Sc.
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Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel?
Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?...
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
-- Old Testament -- Ecclesiastes xii, 12...
Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man, simplicity a child.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epitaph on Gay...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book i, Line 1...
Of my merit On thet pint you yourself may jedge; All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
-- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No....
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long,-- Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner.
Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran h...
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention!
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry V -- Prologue...
Of puns it has been said that they who most dislike them are least able to utter them.
-- Edgar Allan Poe...

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