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The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked…
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Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.
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A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The…
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The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it…
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Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and…
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As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that…
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You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash!
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The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily,…
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Weasels--and stoats--and foxes--and so on. They're all right in a way--I'm very good friends with them--pass the time of day when we…
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There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout…
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The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It…
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There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of…
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Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.
— Robert Burns
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Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
— Deborah Smith
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Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good…
— Tom DeMarco
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While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution,…
— Wilford Woodruff
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Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage;…
— Unknown Author
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Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
— Alexander Pope
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I am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation.
— Ben Jonson
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I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption…
— Deborah Sampson
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A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those…
— Tim Roth
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I'm a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff.
— Ellie Goulding
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Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May,…
— Euripides
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