At
the sweet-shop on the corner Mother Wheeler is
weighing
out a ha’porth of brandy balls.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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Perpema, who succeeded
pils, that in his old age he
abandoned
himself to Crassus, acted with more energy, and in the very
pleasure.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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When Luther appeared,
religion
was no
more than a political power, attacked or de-
fended as an interest of this world.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Still in his eyes shall be
mirrored
our fleeting
Days, with the image of days long ended;
Still shall those eyes give, immortally, greeting
Unto the souls from his spirit descended.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It is obvious that this
preposterous
convention
cannot continue.
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Orwell |
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'
'I have long waited, mother, for those words;
But
wherefore
now?
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Yeats |
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Habituation and pampering, those beginnings of living, can, as you suggest, only be conceived
adequately
as themes of topology.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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The 'Birds'
transport
us to a world of trillings and pip-
ings, and beaks and feathers.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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He found this in the collection of
historic
legends called Songs of
a Troubadour,' which appeared in 1840-1.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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We are all
dedicated
to unhappiness: we all know it, and only
seek for ways to deceive ourselves.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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”
The dealer's heart beat hard against his doublet, impelling
him to roll the pot-bellied
scoundrel
in the mud, that he might
grind his brazen face under his heel.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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_
The Wine Star is a constellation
composed
of three stars, to the North
of the Dipper.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Brilliant
Illumination of the Lamp
In the Individual Vehicle.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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There are books for which
recognition
of the author provides the key to their intelligibility.
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Foucault-Live |
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Yes, I only began to
understand
other people too,
yesterday.
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Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
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Compari-
Immanuel Kant
153
The Critique of Practical Reason
son with such a law, instead of with examples, lowers self-conceit in moral matters very much, and not merely teaches humility, but makes every one feel it when he
examines
himself closely.
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The-Critique-of-Practical-Reason-The-Metaphysical-Elements-of-Ethics-and-Fundamental-Principles-of-the-Metaphysic-of-Morals-by-Immanuel-Kant |
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Filhol is the name of the joglar (jongleur, or minstrel)
No sap chanter qui so no di
No one can sing where no melody is,
Or fashion verse with words unclear,
Or know how the rhymes should appear,
If his logic
inwardly
goes amiss;
But my own song begins like this:
My song gets better, the more you hear.
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Troubador Verse |
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But I must
still believe, with thee, that these evil tales of the Gods were invented
“when man’s life was yet brutish and wandering” (as is the life of many
tribes that even now tell like tales), and were maintained in honour by
the later Greeks
“because
none dared alter the ancient beliefs of his
ancestors.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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He must be young to understand
this protest; and considering the premature gray-
ness of our present youth, he can
scarcely
be young
enough if he would understand its reason as well.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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Born in Paris in 1822, his father, a tailor,
arranged that he should study law; but Murger chose
literature
and
starvation.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v18 - Mom to Old |
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430
As when the Tartar from his Russian Foe
By Astracan over the Snowie Plaines
Retires, or
Bactrian
Sophi from the hornes
Of Turkish Crescent, leaves all waste beyond
The Realme of Aladule, in his retreate
To Tauris or Casbeen.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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The elder ladies' wrinkles curl'd much crisper
As they beheld; the younger cast some leers
On one another, and each lovely lisper
Smiled as she talk'd the matter o'er; but tears
Of
rivalship
rose in each clouded eye
Of all the standing army who stood by.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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Arriving
at Taras
he saw Anthia in the slave market where the procurer because of her
illness was exhibiting her for sale.
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| Question: |
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Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
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es qu'il
faudrait
vendre pour payer les impo^ts.
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| Question: |
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Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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Couldst thou yet be a friend, a
generous
friend,
I might hope comfort from thy noble sorrows.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Otway |
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The mind is a
pristine
clarity that cannot be identified (as this or that).
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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"I shall only add, respecting myself, that, having experienced the goodness
of that Being in conducting me
prosperously
through a long life, I have no
doubt of its continuance in the next, though without the smallest conceit of
meriting such goodness.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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'And as for those parts that came from the earth, they shall
return unto the earth again; and those that came from heaven, they
also shall return unto those
heavenly
places.
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| Question: |
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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Isn't that really
satisfying?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
|
The first part covers two chapters: one treating of occupation, the
foundation of our right; the other, of labor and talent, considered as
causes of
property
and social inequality.
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Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government |
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And even in
Koopstad
there are
nervous souls, though inartistic, in these days of ours when
Time travels only by rail.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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In such a situation it is the duty of the reasonable religions, those that have passed into their respective post-zealotic phases, to seek an alliance with secular civilization and its
theoretical
collections in the cultural sciences.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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The sources of
inspiration
seem never to run dry,
the tree of Polish literature ever sends forth new shoots,
to make those of .
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
|
We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not received written
confirmation
of compliance.
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| Question: |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
|
Project
Gutenberg
is a registered
trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, unless you
receive specific permission.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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[deeply wounded and full of
concern]
Hector: you don't know what
poverty is.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
|
You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Or how or where I am, to such reply:
Where the tall
mountain
throws
Its shade, in the lone vale, whence Sorga flows,
He roams, where never eye
Save Love's, who leaves him not a step, is by,
And one dear image who his peace destroys,
Alone with whom to muse all else in life he flies.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
|
If an
individual
Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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"
It was the desire of beauty that made her a poet; her "nerves of
delight" were always
quivering
at the contact of beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
|
Diderot was the author of La Religieuse,
Chateaubriand
of Rene.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty, and mind, to throw
herself away at nineteen; involve herself at
nineteen
in an engagement
with a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no
hopes of attaining affluence, but in the chances of a most uncertain
profession, and no connexions to secure even his farther rise in the
profession, would be, indeed, a throwing away, which she grieved to
think of!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Persuasion |
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But
on the other hand it was clearly discerned, that
France would never send ambassadors into a coun-
try which he meant at the same time to invade ;
and that his majesty knew very well to be the in-
tention, and the ground of that king's desiring the
peace, which it was plain enough the Dutch did not
desire, and were only drawn to consent to a treaty
by the positive demand of France, which they durst
not contradict : and therefore it concerned the king
to preserve that good disposition, and that the French
ambassadors might come fully instructed to concur
with the English in what should be just, and pre-
vent any insolent carriage of the Dutch, or the Dane,
who was
likewise
to have his ambassadors upon the
place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Divers'
explorant
hSc fontis stagna Nu-f-wJci
( Numicii, NumicI -- crasis.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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Letter to a young
gentleman
of Oxford.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
|
The men said:
"Aren't you ashamed of yourself for
overloading
that poor donkey
of yours and your hulking son?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
|
, and
contained
the words: "Jerusalem, quae
est Mater nostra".
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Charles
Alexander
Richmond:--"A Song.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
I
listened
for some noise, but heard nothing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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Stand by the magic of my
powerful
rhymes
'Gainst all the indignation of the times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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While pursuing our discussion, how-
ever, we shall for once avoid all comparisons and
valuations, and guard more especially against that
flattering
illusion
that our conditions should be
regarded as the standard for all others and as sur-
passing them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
|
(2) Also real or supposed astronomical
perturbations
unknown to
Aristotle led some mediaeval theorists to follow the scheme devised by
Alphonso the Wise of Castille, in which further spheres are inserted
between that of Saturn, the outermost planet, and the "first moved.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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Announce
the next pair, stint not of thy tongue!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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If I make myself sad, I must
continue
to make myself
sad from beginning to end.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
|
) can copy and
distribute
it in the United
States without permission and without paying copyright
royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
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In simmer, when the hay was mawn,
And corn wav'd green in ilka field,
While claver blooms white o'er the lea,
And roses blaw in ilka bield;
Blithe Bessie in the milking shiel,
Says--I'll be wed, come o't what will;
Out spak a dame in
wrinkled
eild--
O' guid advisement comes nae ill.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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(Such, at least, was the thought of the
philosopher
himself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Windelband - History of Philosophy |
|
For the rest, it may perhaps admit a controversy, whether the banishing
all notions of
religion
whatsoever would be inconvenient for the vulgar.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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)
La ecología pneumática se conforma con
devolver
las almas (in cluidos los cuerpos resucitados, si es preciso) a la casa paterna su- pranatural; el resto lo externaliza sin pesar alguno.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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Therefore
they fight as if it were for their life, lest Demetrius go without his fat prey, and the rest want their daily living.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
|
"
By what new utterance shall I now recall,
Unteaching
the heaven-echoes?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
|
(He reaches for a small book) He puts words in the mouth of this same Priapus, a little statue that used to stand in the
Esquiline
Gardens.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
|
Italian friend- liness meant much to Germany in March and
September
1938; but after all, the support given was only moral.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
|
80 See
Extracts
from the Annals of Ulster,
in " Celto-Xor- Johnstone's Antiquitates
manicse," p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
|
”
We were taking a short cut across the square when four dusty cars came in from the
Meridian
highway, moving slowly in a line.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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AND GOD MADE THE BEAST OF THE EARTH AFTER HIS KIND, AND
CATTLE AFTER THEIR KIND, AND EVERY THING THAT
CREEPETH
UPON THE EARTH
AFTER HIS KIND : AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - The Creation |
|
"I do not wish
for
anything
else in life," he said, "but to be able
to work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
|
Durch ihre Arme rieselt
schwarzer
Schnee;
Golda?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Dichtungen |
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l, hogy
elgondolkodtassam
az embereket' [Interview translated into Hungarian].
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
|
i'th' name of truth
Are ye fantasticall, or that indeed
Which
outwardly
ye shew?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Without, fightings are his lot, in that he is torn with stripes and bound with chains; within he suffers alarm, in that he dreads lest his
sufferings
do a mischief, not to himself but to his disciples.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
|
ĐÀO BẠT 陶拔14
người
huyện Bình Hà phủ Nam Sách.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
stella-03 |
|
And now back to
Willowbed
Road, with a penniless week
ahead.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
|
Perhaps our
suspicious
passenger is no Jonah after
all, being black.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
|
org
We
apologize
for this inconvenience.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
|
The more material they accumulated, the more they buried the fertile thought of the
enterprise
to lay bare the interior and context-creating energy of the capitalistic modus vivendi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
|
A
comprehensive
history of Poland, with a final chapter on the
Polish question and the Great War.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
|
1
Schoenberg
set fifteen of these poems to music in 1906.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Studies |
|
The
paper
declared
that since the Georgians were not involved
1S.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
|
As many laws and lawyers do express
Nought but a kingdom's ill-affectedness;
Even so, those streets and houses do but show
Store of diseases where
physicians
flow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
|
His body was
interred
within his Oratory, 7 and in the Chapel he had
built to honour the Blessed Virgin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
|
Then in a bowl he tempers
generous
wines,
Around whose verge a mimic ivy twines.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
Those things that suffer let them complain
themselves, if they will; as for me, as long as I
conceive
no such
thing, that that which is happened is evil, I have no hurt; and it is in
my power not to conceive any such thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
|
le: suppose the
strategy
of player B calls for B-proO?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schwarz - Committments |
|
The manager bent over him
murmuring
as
he walked beside his head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
|
The manager bent over him
murmuring
as
he walked beside his head.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
|
I am now
following
the original biography.
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The June 1943 directive thus recognized the need for adjusting to limited
capabilities
by
ordering concentration on a single specifically-designated target system.
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This paraphrase of Maillon’s paragraphs shows how completely logical is
the conclusion of the romance where the noble Gymnosophist Sisimithres
persuades the king of the Ethiopians and his people to renounce human
sacrifice and accept the divine
blessing
on the loves of Theagenes and
Chariclea.
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which extended even from the people to
their monarchs; he would have pretended
that all his friends had betrayed him; and
that the very services, which they had ren-
dered him, were so many snares: what then
would the man of an
understanding
formed
by society have answered to all these com-
plaints?
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And many another object flashes aflame
When at a distance, touched by heat alone,
Before 'tis steeped in
veritable
fire.
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Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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It frequently
ennobled,
frequently
veiled, the desire for power.
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"I
continued
for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of
utter and stupid despair.
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The manager bent over him
murmuring
as
he walked beside his head.
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A
charming
balada of Provence prob-
ably takes us beyond the troubadour to the domain of actual folk-
song.
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