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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. -- Saadi
The Roseanne Barr Diet: One meadow per day.
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets & other Poetry -- Sonnet liv...
The rose of a world that never was has withered away. -- Sir John Betjema
The rose of yore is but a name, mere names are left to us.
[Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemur]....
The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.
-- Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839) -- The Rose that all are praising...
The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between a five-dollar bill and a whip deserves to learn the difference on his own back -- as, I think, he will.
-- Francisco d'Anconia, in Ayn Rand'...
The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide -- as, I think, he will.
Until and unless yo...
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and orname
it is its ancient and natural strength,--the floating bulwark of our island....
The rudeness of a bureaucrat is inversely proportional to his or her position in the governmental hierarchy and to the number of peers similarly engaged.
-- Hewett's Observatio...

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