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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to…
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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the…
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In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
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Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's…
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Chess is one long regret.
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In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive…
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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently…
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A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of…
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Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
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The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific…
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The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak,…
— G. M. Trevelyan
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There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.
— Harold Bloom
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It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle…
— Stephen Leacock
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I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book,…
— Ray Bradbury
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The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus they found, and that with ease, The…
— Plato
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Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated; Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but STUPID lasts forever.
— Aristophanes
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