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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the…
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the…
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of…
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style…
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he…
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…
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At this moment, I have in my heart a prayer. As I have assumed my heavy duties, I humbly pray, Almighty God,…
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I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would…
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King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his…
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The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.
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When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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King David and King Solomon Led merry, merry lives, With many, many lady friends And many, many wives; But when old age…
— Unknown Author
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The old age of methusalem have Nothin to do with the wisdom of king solomon ,u can be young and be wise
— Kgedzah
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FACTS YOU MUST KNOW. 1. The whitest man on earth still have a black shadow. 2. No matter how tall you are,…
— Arcine Arciniegas
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