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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without...
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Source: The Wasps.
-- Aristophanes, ( ...
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar...
Yet dearer still that Irish hill than all the world beside;
It's home, sweet home, where'er I roam, through lands...
Four ducks on a pond,
A grass-bank beyond,
A blue sky of spring,
White clouds on the wing:
What a little...
History of Ireland -- lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness...
Sin we have explain'd away;
Unluckily, the sinners stay.
Source: Blackberries,...
Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear of little...
Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human...
The innate tendency [of men] to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government . . . Man's...
When a woman like that whom I've seen so much
All of a sudden drops out of touch,
Is always busy and never...
Love will not always linger longest
With those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
They make other nations seem pale and flighty,
But they do think England is God almighty,
And you must remind...
Opinion governs all mankind,
Like the blind's leading of the blind .
Source:...
Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.
Source: Hudibras,...
Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
Source: Hudibras, Pt. II.
-- Samuel...
Through perils both of wind and limb,
Through thick and thin she follow'd him.
He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still.
Source:...