"My fingers are too short to enable me……" — Pud Galvin

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• The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a… — George Santayana
• The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature… — Walter Bagehot
• God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself… — Martin Luther
• History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's… — Robert Smithson
• I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable… — William Shirley
• If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another,… — Simon Greenleaf
• All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these… — Adelbert von Chamisso
• Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from… — Augustus De Morgan
• Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry… — Herman Melville
• Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty. — Propertius
• We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our… — Samuel Johnson
• By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which… — Joshua Reynolds

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