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Douglas Jerrold
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
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Herodotus
A woman seldom writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
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Richard Steele
Go little letter apace apace Fly Fly to the light in the valley below - Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye.
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?' The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their...
When the rich give a party and the meal is finished, a man carries round amongst the guests a wooden image of a corpse in a coffin, carved and painted to look as much like the real thing as possible, and anything from 18 inches...
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve...
Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word "happy" in reserve....
