Miscellaneous Collections

Miscellaneous Collections

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Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.
-- James Merrick (1720-1769) -- The Chameleo...
Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.
-- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 240...
Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man.
-- Thomas Southerne (1660-1746) -- Sir Anthony Love, Act ii, Sc. 1...
of the many who beseech the Goddess to send them love, so few will accept it when it comes, because it has come in what they consider the wrong shape, or the wrong size, or at the wrong time.
Aga...
Of the sparkling wines, the most famous in Perth Pink.
This is a bottle with a message in it and the message is 'beware....
Of the two classic certainties, death and taxes, death is preferable.
At least you're not called in six months later for an audit. -- Bill Vaugha...
Of the two smartest creatures on the earth, man and the dolphin, each thought they were smarter then the other.
Man thought he was smarter because he built many things and did much work, when the dolp...
Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent, Vol. i, p. 531...

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