There is no guilt greater than to
sanction
ambition; no calamity
greater than to be discontented with one's lot; no fault greater than
the wish to be getting.
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Tao Te Ching |
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Parents who
physically
abuse their children tend to have had childhoods characterised by neglect, rejection and violence.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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It was
thus that I became one day a University Professor
-I had never had the
remotest
idea of such a
thing; for I was scarcely four-and-twenty years
of age.
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
|
Talmon, "The New Anti-Semitism," The New Republic, 9/18/1976; Barbara Tuchman, "They
poisoned
the Wells," Newsweek 2/3/75.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
|
Title of Play:
The Two
Gentlemen
of Verona
?
| Guess: |
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Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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As riches too generally
prevail against right, Amu'lius made use of his wealth to
supplant
his
brother, and soon found means to possess himself of the kingdom.
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| Question: |
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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To delay him,
she cut
Absyrtus
to pieces, put the child's head on a conspicuous rock
near the shore and then scattered his limbs over the neighboring fields.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
|
In his Lehrbuch der Kirch-
engeschichte
ed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
|
[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Mold,
Who shrank from
sensations
of cold;
So he purchased some muffs, some furs, and some fluffs,
And wrapped himself well from the cold.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Tenho quintas nos
arredores
da vida.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
|
I sweated and
shivered
over that business considerably, I can tell
you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
|
The right was held to be the more
honourable
part.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Confucius - Book of Rites |
|
From the dull confines of the
drooping
West, II.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
|
You had no doubt or
difficulty
as to how he would act on a given occasion ; but always considered yourself safe with him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
|
quemcumque
require hac de stirpe virum : certum est de consule nasci.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
|
This makes our encoun- ters with
classics
more relaxed, because their power to speak to us directly is no longer threatened--nor is this power peculiarly theirs.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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"
The inscription had a double sense; while
honoring
the
dead republican, it struck at the Empire: "Lincoln- the Honest
Man; abolished Slavery, re-established the Union; Saved the Re-
public, without veiling the Statue of Liberty.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v12 - Gre to Hen |
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scarcely laid, his
murderous
fingers creep,
And close her eyes in everlasting sleep.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Satires |
|
this day our labours cease,
And
conquest
blazes with full beams on Greece.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
'°7 The
townland
and town of Tralee, in the parish so named, and in the barony of Trughanacmy, are found, on the " Ordnance Survey Townland Maps for the County of Kerry," sheets 21, 29.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
|
"
" You will find out the lie without my telling you," mumbled the witch ; " your
business
is not perhaps such a bad one as it seemed to me at first.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
ber das Wesen des Verbrechens
mitgeteilt; man kann ihn
bezeichnen
als das Ver-
gnu?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Weininger - 1923 - Tod |
|
14 of 15 7/21/2014 10:11 AM
The End of
History?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fukuyama - End of History |
|
Some respectable persons have said, that
we ought not to neglect any weapon, and
that
metaphysical
arguments also ought to
be employed, to persuade those .
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Germany |
|
Do men find life so full of humour and joy
That for want of
excitement
they smash up the toy?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Attic Nights of Aullus Gellius - 1792 |
|
Menagerie to me
My
neighbor
be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Look at the number of studies of Rimbaud's silence after
publishing
the one and only book that he personally was to offer to his con- temporaries.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
|
bind
ourselves
so firmly to any of them that if one day the truth is more thoroughly investigated, our interpretation may collapse, and we with it'.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
|
SECTIONII: 1936-66
29
I cannot do more than spell out Italian very slowly with a
dictionary
as wellasyoucannotdomorethanonJapanese.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Japan-Letters-essays |
|
He wanted to make the story of
Philemon
differ-
ent.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
|
Do not interfere with an army that is
returning
home.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
The-Art-of-War |
|
In the last rays of the setting sun of the ancient world,
which fell upon the christian peoples, the shadowy form of the saint
attained
enormous
proportions--to such enormous proportions, indeed,
that down even to our own age, which no longer believes in god, there
are thinkers who believe in the saints.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
|
Hymn,
75 Known as the Altus Prosator, a copy of which was in the possession of Colgan, who has
published
it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v6 |
|
Philosophy as a "discipline" has no real thesis about "theoretical fascism" because it
basically
considers the latter to be beneath all critique.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
|
Whence comes this variety
within the
circular
process ?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
|
Norris had no
affection
for Fanny,
and no wish of procuring her pleasure at any time; but her opposition to
Edmund _now_, arose more from partiality for her own scheme, because it
_was_ her own, than from anything else.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
|
AN DEN KNABEN ELIS
Elis, wenn die Amsel im
schwarzen
Wald ruft,
Dieses ist dein Untergang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Dichtungen |
|
Again,
forasmuch
as the author of the sedition was escaped, and the region filled with murderers, 496 it is not without cause that the chief captain demandeth of Paul, when he seeth all men so hate him, whether he were that Egyptian.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
|
I shall abide the first blow just as
I sit, and will stand him a stroke, stiff on this floor,
provided
that
I deal him another in return.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Il
arrivait
que le nom d'une personne dont nous avions parlé et
qui excitait ma jalousie vînt à ses lèvres, mais sans me rendre
malheureux, car le souvenir qu'il y amenait semblait n'être que celui
des conversations qu'elle avait eues à ce sujet avec moi.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
|
My honour's mute, my duty
impotent!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
It is part of the logical structure of the threats
discussed
in this chapter that they entail risk- the risk of being fulfilled--even though they work (or were about to work) as intended.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
|
"God
preserve
me!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
|
And whether this was from joy or fear she was not certain, for two conflicting
408 A Clergyman’s Daughter
thoughts had sprung almost simultaneously into her brain One, ‘This is some
kind of good news’’ The other, ‘Father is seriously ill’’ She managed to tear the
envelope open, and found a telegram which occupied two pages, and which she
had the greatest difficulty in understanding It ran
Rejoice in the lord o ye righteous note of exclamation great news note of exclamation your
reputation
absolutely
reestablished stop mrs sempnll fallen into the pit that she hath digged stop
action for libel stop no one believes her any longer stop your father wishes you return home
immediately stop am coming up to town myself comma will pick you up if you like stop arriving
shortly after this stop wait for me stop praise him with the loud cymbals note of exclamation much
love stop
No need to look at the signature It was from Mr Warburton, of course
Dorothy felt weaker and more tremulous than ever She was dimly aware the
telegraph boy was asking her something
‘Any answer?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
|
"Where is your
village?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Robert Forst - North of Boston |
|
"Well," thought I, "I must put on the
dissembler
a little, I
see.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
|
1 A
difficult
line; it might perhaps mean "so often struck by the acrobat in his flight".
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
|
7, 32;
Treatise
of Human
Nature 23
Husserl, E.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
|
Stick stick call then, stick stick sticking,
sticking
with a chicken.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons |
|
And then, the mid-day having worn to one,
The company prepared to separate;
Some to their several pastimes, or to none,
Some
wondering
't was so early, some so late.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bryon - Don Juan |
|
"
Bonadea
responded
with something quite profound: "Oh, Ul- rich!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
|
"You have not come at a very
favorable
time," said she.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
|
The
misfortune was, that the news of the
engagement
came to the
ears of the wicked Queen, whose only joy was to trouble that of
(
## p.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
|
While the
faction of Marius, in the town, indulged in acts of
violence
against the
contrary faction, the soldiers of Sylla were irritated at seeing the
legions of his rival likely to snatch from them the rich booty which
Asia promised; and they swore to avenge their chief.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
|
He
answered
emphatically but calmly--
"A female curate, who is not my wife, would never suit me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
|
I blush at my confession
I've wrongly judged an
innocent
expression.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
|
Over- looking Sternis Bay is a
Hellenistic
temple, which may have been preceded by earlier structures, to judge from votives found in the area.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Ah, no, my
Beautiful!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v28 - Songs, Hymns, Lyrics |
|
"
If Catullus was to acquire this
knowledge
there was no
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
|
Luhmann, Niklas, The Future Cannot Begin: Temporal
Structures
in Modern Society , Social Research, 43:1 (1976:Spring) p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
|
The
hyacinth
bewrays the doleful _Ai_,[582]
And calls the tribute of Apollo's sigh;
Still on its bloom the mournful flower retains
The lovely blue that dy'd the stripling's veins.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
|
Gracias, pues, de mi parte, así como de las hijas
adoptivas
del poeta,
favorecidas todas por su generosidad; y aun cuando me consta que Ud.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
|
his hasty way of draining the cup in his right hand, and the coarse jokes that from time to time escaped him,
sufficiently
marked him as one of those vulgar roues who were accustomed to waste the day at the dice board, and devote the night to riot and debauchery.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v04 |
|
n, los
circuitos
de tra?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
|
Then there was anarchy for 2 years and 2 months, after which Antigonus the son of
Demetrius
[ruled] for 34 years and 2 months.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eusebius - Chronicles |
|
I met with my name a hundred times; I never saw it without fear, some heavy
calamity
always followed it.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
|
--the damps of death were upon him--he could not
have
survived
an hour.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
The Duke of Buckingham was, we are told by Aubrey, well dis-
posed towards Butler, and Wycherley was a
constant
suitor in his
behalf; but the fickle favorite forgot his promises as easily as did
the King.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
|
And, although her frequent returns of sickness were very chargeable, except fees to physicians, of which she met with several so generous that she could force nothing on them, (and indeed she must
otherwise
have been undone) yet she ever was without a considerable sum of ready money.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Swift - On the Death of Esther Johnson, Stella |
|
It is enough that we once came together ; Time has seen this, and will not turn
again ;
And who are we, who know that last
intent,
To plague to-morrow with a
testament
!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
|
" The author adduces
many new and startling theories in regard to the
questions
he
treats of in support of his views.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
|
Moreover, I am not
accustomed
to
think that I deserve any punishment.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Plato - Apology, Charity |
|
I fear that I am not like thee:
For I walk through the vales of Har, and smell the sweetest flowers:
But I feed not the little flowers: I hear the
warbling
birds,
But I feed not the warbling birds, they fly and seek their food:
But Thel delights in these no more because I fade away
And all shall say, without a use this shining women liv'd,
Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
The
wonderful
purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
That is a huge mountain, from which down to this day they say that blasts of fire issue from the
thunderbolts
that were thrown.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Apollodorus - The Library |
|
In short, unless you mingle your mind with the Dharma, it is
pointless
to merely sport a spiritual veneer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
|
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word
processing
or hypertext form.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
For the rest, she was a girl of middle height, rather thin, but strong and
shapely, and her face was her weak point It was a thin, blonde,
unremarkable
kind of face, with pale eyes and a nose just a shade too long, if you looked
closely you could see crow’s feet round the eyes, and the mouth, when it was in
repose, looked tired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
|
Our
political
history is a record of compromises.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
|
199 ff; Erfahrung und Urteil:
Untersucllungen
%ur Genealogie der Logik (Hamburg: Claassen Bc Goverts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
|
'
And the woman turned round and recognised Him, and laughed and said, 'But
you forgave me my sins, and the way is a
pleasant
way.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 05:04 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Against Midias |
|
We
therefore
continued
to keep in touch with him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
|
He went
complaining
all the morrow 105
That he was cold and very chill:
His face was gloom, his heart was sorrow,
Alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
Then what am I
complaining
about, apart from the vic- timhood that comes from having to be so tremendously available myself?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
|
Jaspers, Die
geistige
Situation, p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
|
"
Amanda fest the truth of the observa-
tion, and
promised
to-fubdue the un-
t amiable
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
|
Confucius
stressed
the idea of ?
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infringement liability can be quite severe.
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windswept
waters are clear,2 12 a remote route for tax from the Huai and lakes.
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When idle talk is aban- doned and one bears only meaningful news, the re- sults are birth among men, one's words are noble and
pleasing
to others, one is happy with little talking and
the country is even in terrain and climate.
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(_I know what I must do: I am to abase
My heart utterly, and have nothing in me
That dare take
pleasure
beyond serving love.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Nor in the
darkness
of oblivion, my unhappy fatherland, shalt thou hide thy glory faded.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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When the conspiracy had been revealed in this way, Cicero, partly by
menacing
threats and partly by gentle persuasion, learned all the details of the plot from them.
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He wished to know the
distinctions
between our dramatic and
epic blank verse.
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Then they were startled by the scorn that they had
inflicted
upon themselves.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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The Man and the Serpent
A Countryman's son by
accident
trod upon a Serpent's tail,
which turned and bit him so that he died.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Misogonus and
Laurence
Johnson.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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