Sometime
Trooper of the Royal Horse Guards.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Mark still glow his steeds of brass,
Their gilded collars
glittering
in the sun;
But is not Doria's menace come to pass?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
J thought, we are
patients?
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Orwell - 1984 |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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For on
whatever
side thou deemest first
The primal bodies lacking, lo, that side
Will be for things the very door of death:
Wherethrough the throng of matter all will dash,
Out and abroad.
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Lucretius |
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1 He was an old man, rich in
experience
and inured to every trial and hardship of life.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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If he ever felt tempted to doubt this, then his
experience with the deputy director and the manufacturer that day would
be quite enough to
convince
him of it.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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What is above my strength, he ----- saith, I have not sought; I have not stretched myself out
there, I have not chosen to be
magnified
there.
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Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6 |
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βαστά η καρδιά μου, ότι κακά πολλά την βασανίσαν
'ς ταις μάχαις και 'ς τα
πέλαγα•
και αυτό μ' εκείν' ας έλθη.
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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High on the topmost
thrilling
of the surge
I saw, afar, two hosts to battle urge.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Live and love,--
Doing both nobly because
lowlily!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Moreover, these practices have an
influence
on the relation between husband
and wife, on their emotions towards each other and towards the whole sexual
nisus.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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Dicea: — Questa mi par cosa assai nuova,
ch'essendo voi
guerrier
degno e prestante,
costui compagno abbiate, che non truova,
di viltà, pari in terra di Levante.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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The consciousness of the non-identity between
presentation
and presented material forces the form to make unlimited efforts.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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You are not to put
yourself
at all out of your way.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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The Committee have no hesitation in declaring
their
conviction
that Mr.
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written |
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Macedonia went back, and
its very
existence
as an independent kingdom was in
jeopardy.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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175 When the ship was built, and he inquired of the oracle, the god gave him leave to
assemble
the nobles of Greece and sail away.
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Apollodorus - The Library |
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This renders
the
advantages
equal of ignorance and knowledge.
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Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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Remove yon skull from out the
scattered
heaps:
Is that a temple where a God may dwell?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In:
Christeaneum
56 [2001], Heft 2, pp.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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The claim that our industrial corporations are exercising increased power over our government will elicit
amazement
and wrath in all the exclusive clubs.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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It offered the possibility of making ac- tors' inner
processes
of opinion formation, conflicts and uncertain- ties visible on stage through language.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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II4
Genius makes
tributaries
of all partly-talented
people: hence the Persians themselves sent their
ambassadors to the Greek oracles.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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The state of things reminds us of the king
less times of the German middle ages, when Nuremberg and Augsburg found their protection not in the king's law and the king’s courts, but in their own walls alone ;
impatiently
the merchant-citizens of Syria awaited the strong arm, which should restore to them peace and security of intercourse.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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He invites the
romantic
into the light of
common day; his pathos is human and con-
temporary.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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As Burke and Robespierre had warned many years before, the revolution in France had ended in a
military
dictatorship.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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Dressing as quickly as he can,
Eugene directs the trusty man
To
accompany
him and to escort
A box of terrible import.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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2 parasols, an orchid (artIficial)
for whIch I was presented wIth a new kInd of net gloves made lIke fishnet, so the day was not wholly wasted
The prIest here
had una nuova messa
(dodlcesuno anna E F )
bella festa, because there was a prIest here to say hIs first mass
and all the
mountaIns
were full of fires, and
we went around through the VIllage
In gtro per 11 paese 2.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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So, struck backward and exhausted by that inward flow of passion
Which had rushed on, sparing nothing, into forms of
abstract
truth,
By a logic agonizing through unseemly demonstration,
And by youth's own anguish turning grimly grey the hairs of youth,--
LXXXVI.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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Existe, como um dia de prata oca, e os telhados do prédio fronteiro, que vejo da cama, são líquidos de
brancura
enegrecida.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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This is meant not in the sense that war constantly occurs but in the sense that, with each state
deciding
for itself whether or not to use force, war may at any time break out.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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de Guermantes, prince des Laumes,
siégeait
à la Chambre, on
lisait quelquefois dans les journaux de Paris, bien que ce fût surtout
destiné à la circonscription de Méséglise et afin de montrer aux
électeurs qu'ils n'avaient pas porté leurs votes sur un mandataire
inactif ou muet: «Monsieur de Guermantes-Bouillon, prince des Laumes:
«Ceci est grave!
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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A nne Marie L ouise Germaine N eck er, B aroness de
S tael H olstein, was the only child of J ames N eck er, the
famous financier (a long time the popular idol in F rance),
and of S usanna Curchod, the daughter of a poor S wiss cler-
gyman, who, in the seq
uestered
village of Crassy, bestowed
upon her as thorough an education as fell to the lot of any
woman in E urope.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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net/
Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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My refusal to
genuflect
to that orthodoxy upset a number of them.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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--Iphianassa, you
remember
Perseus, Danae's boy?
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| Source: |
Lucian |
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I am sure that your official superiors do not need to be convinced of
your
diligence!
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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But
gradually
she gained ground.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
|
]
[Variant 40: The following stanza appeared only in the editions
1798-1805:
Yet does that burst of woe congeal my frame,
When the dark streets appeared to heave and gape,
While like a sea the storming army came,
And Fire from Hell reared his
gigantic
shape,
And Murder, by the ghastly gleam, and Rape
Seized their joint prey, the mother and the child!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Subordinate to Urizen
And to his sons in their degrees & to his beauteous
daughters
{'In sevens & tens.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But if
he could be himself persuaded to quit that which
every body knew he was weary of, it would prevent
all
inconveniences
: and they had been told that the
chancellor only had dissuaded him from doing it,
which he would not presume to do, if he were clearly
told that the king desired that he should give it up.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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They cannot be shut up
In prison wall, nor put to death on
scaffolds!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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1195
I flew here only in hope his son might be rescued:
And tore myself from Oenone's
trembling
arms,
Yielding to that remorse that does me harm.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The total abolition of war would, of course, be the ideal, but there is
no
possibility
of this in the near future.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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He
returneth
to miracles of another sort, which are more proper to the gospel; to wit, whereby Christ doth not only declare his power, but also his goodness; to the end he may allure men unto himself with the sweetness of his grace.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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So he quoted the
Confucian
epigram, ''?
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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In reality, Flory had dodged the War because the East already corrupted him,
and he did not want to exchange his whisky, his
servants
and his Bunnese girls for the
boredom of the parade ground and the strain of cruel marches.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Não é bem um desejo, nem uma esperança, que nos traz essa visão no escuro de que a morte é um mal-entendido: é um
raciocínio
feito com as entranhas, que repudia [.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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--
Forth looked in wrath the eagle;
And carrion-kite and jay, 110
Soon as they saw his beak and claw,
Fled
screaming
far away.
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Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by Stevenson |
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Many have
pontificem tuum inter innumera mirabilia
thought, that it was designed as a
sculptural
representation of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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Many have
pontificem tuum inter innumera mirabilia
thought, that it was designed as a
sculptural
representation of St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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507-583)
The road that I came by mounts eight
thousand
feet:
The river that I crossed hangs a hundred fathoms.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Command only to direct ; to be
absolute
is to run into evil.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
”
"Is there
anything
else I can do for you?
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Begone, ye chilling water sprite;
Here burning Bacchus rules
tonight!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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A most inhuman and
economical
thing, and more to be execrated, that those
great princes of the Church and true lights of the world should be
reduced to a staff and a wallet.
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| Source: |
Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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Who could imagine he'd have so much
patience?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
|
Now
sometimes
in a dream
My heart goes out of me
To build and scheme,
Till I sob after things that seem
So pleasant in a dream:
A home such as I see
My blessed neighbors live in
With father and with mother,
All proud of one another,
Named by one common name,
From baby in the bud
To full-blown workman father;
It's little short of Heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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It is a disease of civilisation and is
intimately
associated
with economic conditions.
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| Source: |
Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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I do not
remember
.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Against Midias |
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Peevishness, indeed, would perhaps very little disturb the peace of
mankind, were it always the consequence of
superfluous
delicacy; for it
is the privilege only of deep reflection, or lively fancy, to destroy
happiness by art and refinement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
|
This is not to minimize the importance of character
formation
during early life, but rather to suggest that the altering of adult identity depends upon a specific recapturing of much of the emotional tone which prevailed at the time that this adult identity took shape.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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"182 Likewise, her
servants
are marked by her and lled with joy when "irradiated by her life and example" and "illuminated by her patronage and mercy," they are incited to good.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
|
CHAPTER XVI
WAR
War always changes the
composition
of a nation; but this change may be
either a loss or a gain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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In ecstasy the earth
Drank the silver sunlight;
In ecstasy the skaters
Drank the wine of speed;
In ecstasy we laughed
Drinking
the wine of love.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
|
This more or
less betrays already, that
philosophy
in its first principles must have
a practical or moral, as well as a theoretical or speculative side.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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zirziiij
i i;1,iJ.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spheres-Vol-1-Peter-Sloterdijk |
|
Sydney in a short time
reconciled
her to
her father's marriage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Roses and Emily |
|
đoạn
trường
là số thế nào,
Bài ra thế ấy, vịnh vào thế kia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
|
229
the attraction of her person, joining with the charm of her conversation, and the character that attended all she said or did, was
something
bewitching.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v05 |
|
[End of the Second Night]
Ahania heard the Lamentation & a swift
Vibration
Spread thro her Golden frame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
|
Ne me regarde pas ainsi, toi, ma
pensée!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
|
I
remember
how he
looked at me when I went in to him--do you remember?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
|
It makes sense that gorging oneself with food would destroy feelings of hunger, but why does
Erasistratus
claim that fasting can have the same effect?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
|
In such circumstances
should I not be
compelled
to become a hedgehog?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
|
XXVI
In my young days of wild delight
On balls I madly used to dote,
Fond
declarations
they invite
Or the delivery of a note.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
|
Art thou
not the voluntary beggar who once cast away great riches,--
--Who was ashamed of his riches and of the rich, and fled to the poorest
to bestow upon them his
abundance
and his heart?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thus Spake Zarathustra- A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable
showers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
|
They name
the lad and lass to each particular nut, as they lay them in
the fire; and
according
as they burn quietly together, or
start from beside one another, the course and issue of the
courtship will be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
burns |
|
When the author iden tifies himself as author, the self-eulogistic melody appears; when the market-maker launches the brand, the
advertisement
appears.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
|
No one discovered what had happened until the end of the voyage,
when they found the
stowaway
rotting, dead of suffocation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
|
'3 Of
Feidhlimidh
Finn, Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
|
His
arguments
in 1910-11
before the Interstate Commerce Commission
against the raising of rates, on the ground that
the way for railroads to be more prosperous was
to be more efficient, made efficiency a national
idea.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
|
Then to her side
The
children
came, and clung to her and cried,
And her arms hugged them, and a long good-bye
She gave to each, like one who goes to die.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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These had
been in
rebellion
for three or four years before Ibrahim's death and when I
defeated him, were holding Qanauj and the whole country beyond it.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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Border
strategy
based on strong fortifications encouraged trade along the Silk Routes in Central Asia.
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Like-Water-or-Clouds-The-Tang-Dynasty |
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No
flinching
in any of the horses.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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But there is
also a paradox about it, namely this: Our intention in swearing is to shock and wound,
which we do by mentioning
something
that should be kept secret — usually something to
do with the sexual functions.
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Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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And when something is happening every min- ute, it is easy to imagine that one is
actually
getting real things done.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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The German philosophy introduces the phy-
sical sciences into that universal sphere of
ideas, which imparts so much
interest
to the
most minute observations, as well as to the
most important results.
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Madame de Stael - Germany |
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Blocks
automatically
expire.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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I must at once both be and not be totally and in all
respects
a coward.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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FromCXII
owl, and
\vagtall
andhuo3-hu2, thefire-fox Amrta, that IS nectar
\VhIte wInd '\vhlte dc\v Here froll1 the begmnll1g, \\'C have been here
froll1 the begU1111ng From her breath were the goddesses
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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The Rarity of True Friendship_
PER tot signorum species
contraria
surgunt
corpora totque modis quotiens inimica creantur.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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' However, Blake seems to indicate a re-sequencing of the material to the order shown here, indicating the
insertion
of these 3 lines with a letter X at their head and a corresponding X at the end of the preceding section [ending '.
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Blake - Zoas |
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