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«Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.»
Author: A. S. W. Rosenbach
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Alice, Alice in, Alice in Wonderland, contents, devouring, edition, editions, favorites, first edition, literally, nursery, scarcities, scarcity, The Nursery, wonderland
«The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.»
«SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.The devil casting a seine of lace,(With precious stones 'twas weighted) Drew it into the landing place And its contents calculated.All souls of women were in that sack -- A draft miraculous, precious! But ere he could throw it across his back They'd all escaped through the meshes. --Baruch de Loppis»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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All Souls, Baruch, coarse, contents, cut across, draft, Drew, effecting, involuntary, lace, landing place, mesh, miraculous, net, precious stones, sack, seine, singularly, taken with, weighted
«SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.»
«The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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contents, drug, Drug store, medical, store, The Christian
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