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When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights;
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There was an Old Man of Columbia, Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer; But they brought it quite hot,…
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There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most…
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There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a…
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I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so,…
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They danced by the light of the moon.
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They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends…
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In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle-…
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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
— Aeschylus
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While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
— Samuel Butler
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Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
— Coco Chanel
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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul,…
— Richard Sibbes
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[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in…
— William J. Clinton
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[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and…
— Charles Kingsley
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