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1st try here:
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| Behold here the fate of a sailor! They give him the last toss, and no one asks whose child he was. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Omoo (1846), ch. 12, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 2, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1968). On the occasion of a burial at sea. ~ |
2nd try here:
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| Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well. |
| ~Bonnie Wilcox 'Old Dogs, Old Friends' ~ |
3rd try here:
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| Such protection as vultures give to lambs. |
| ~ Richard Sheridan, Pizarro. Act ii. Sc. 2. ~ |
4th try here:
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| I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle... |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
5th try here:
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| Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war. |
| ~ John Milton, To the Lord General Cromwell. ~ |
6th try here:
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| Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right. |
| ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroism. ~ |
7th try here:
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| I saw a ship of martial build (Her standards set, her brave apparel on) Directed as by madness mere Against a stolid iceberg steer, Nor budge it, though the infatuate ship went down. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. poet, novelist. The Berg (l. 1–5). ATCBP. Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press. ~ |
8th try here:
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| Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises. |
| ~ Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter. ~ |
9th try here:
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| Is that the Craig Jurgesen that Teddy Roosevelt gave you?... And you used it at San Juan Hill defending liberty. Now you want to destroy it. |
| ~ Laurence Stallings (1894–1968), U.S. screenwriter, and John Ford. Judge William Pitman Priest (Charles Winniger), The Sun Shines Bright, reproaching the member of a lynch mob who wants to hang a black youth accused of raping a white girl (1953). Based on stories “The Sun Shines Bright,” “The Mob from Massac,” “The Lord Provides” by Irwin S. Cobb. ~ |
10th try here:
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| And what this flood of deeper brown, Which a white foam does also crown, Less white than snow, more white than mortar? Oh, my soul! can this be Porter? |
| ~The Dejeune ~ |
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| So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts |
| ~ (James Madison) Federalist, no. 10 ~ |
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