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“The king of France with twenty thousand men
Went up the hill, and then came down again:
The king of Spain with twenty thousand more
Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.”
Soldiers Quotes Source: from Sloane Manuscript 1489, written time of Charles I
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“A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings,
You came across the watching world to show how heroes die.
When the splendour of your story
Builds the halo of its glory,
'Twill belt the earth like Saturn's rings
And diadem the sky.”
Soldiers Quotes Source: "M.R.C.S.", in "Anzac", on Colonial Soldiers, 1919
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“Terrible he rode alone,
With his yemen sword for aid;
Ornament it carried none
But the notches on the blade.”
Soldiers Quotes Source: The Death Feud--An Arab War Song (st. 14), in "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine", July, 1850, translation s
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“Food for the soul.
[Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]”
Libraries Quotes Source: inscription on the Berlin Royal Library
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“The medicine chest of the soul.”
Libraries Quotes Source: inscription of a library
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“The rise of every man he loved to trace,
Up to the very pod O!
And, in baboons, our parent race
Was found by old Monboddo.
Their A, B, C, he made them speak,
And learn their qui, quae, quod, O!
Till Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, and Greek
They knew as well's Monboddo!”
Evolution Quotes Source: ballad in "Blackwood's Mag" referring to monkey theory of James Burnett (Lord Monboddo)
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“The weakest goeth to the wall.”
Weakness Quotes Source: title of a play printed in 1600 and 1618
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“The White Plume of Navarre.”
Politics Quotes Source: name given to the New York "Tribune" during the U.S. Civil War
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“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
Politics Quotes Source: name given to the New York "Tribune" during the U.S. Civil War
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“"There beauty half her glory veils,
In cabs, those gondolas on wheels."”
Livery Quotes Source: said to be taken from "May Fair", a satire publication
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“Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth,
Thirty days to each affix;
Every other thirty-one,
Except the second month alone.”
Months Quotes Source: common in Chester County, Pennsylvania, among the Friends
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“Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one
Excepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine,
Till lap year gives it twenty-nine.”
Months Quotes Source: common in New England States
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“Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
February eight-and-twenty all alone,
And all the rest have thirty-one:
Unless that leap-year doth combine,
And give to February twenty-nine.”
Months Quotes Source: Return from Parnassus, (London 1606)
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“Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the
eagle, by getting upon his back.”
Wrens Quotes Source: in the "Tatler", no. 224
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“And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.”
Wrens Quotes Source: in the "Tatler", no. 224
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“Here's to France, the moon whose magic rays move the tides of the
world.”
Toasts Quotes Source: Frenchman's toast at a banquet in England
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“Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all nations
of the world.”
Toasts Quotes Source: Englishman's toast at a banquet in England
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“Our country, however bounded.”
Toasts Quotes Source: toast founded on the speech of Winthrop
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“Hier aupres de Charenton
Un serpent morait Jean Freron,
Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?
Ce fut le serpent qui creva.”
Poison Quotes Source: imitation from the Greek, also found in Oeuvres Complets de Voltaire, III, p. 1002, 1817, printed as
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“Un gros serpent mordit Aurele.
Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?
Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!
Ce fut le serpent qui creva.”
Poison Quotes Source: in a manuscript commonplace book, probably written at the end of the 18th century, see "Notes and Qu
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“How bething the, gentliman,
How Adam dalf, and Eve span.”
Work Quotes Source: from a manuscript of the fifteenth century in the British Museum
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“Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.”
Labor Quotes Source: in a sermon to the people of Queenhith, advertised in the "Daily Courant", Oct. 6, 1709
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“He who labours, prays.
[Lat., Qui laborat, orat.]”
Labor Quotes Source: in a sermon to the people of Queenhith, advertised in the "Daily Courant", Oct. 6, 1709
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“Doubt not but God who sits on high,
Thy secret prayers can hear;
When a dead wall thus cunningly
Conveys soft whispers to the ear.”
Prayer Quotes Source: verse inscribed in the Whispering Gallery of Gloucester Cathedral
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“O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget
me.”
Prayer Quotes Source: attributed to a soldier by William King in "Anecdotes of his own time", p. 7 (ed. 1818)
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