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| 394844d | The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother's side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neig.. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| b9702c4 | In answer to which, I assured his honor that in all points out of their [lawyers'] own trade, they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning; and equally disposed to pervert the general reason of mankind, in every other subject of discourse as in that of their own profession. | houyhnhnmland houyhnhnms lawyers yahoos | Jonathan Swift | |
| 60c2048 | a crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast; they go on shore to rob and plunder, they see a harmless people, are entertained with kindness; they give the country a new name; they take formal possession of it for their king; they set up a rotten plank, or a stone, for a memorial; they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more, by force, for a sample;.. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| fe10c45 | My master likewise mentioned another Quality which his Servants had discovered in several Yahoos, and to him was wholly unaccountable. He said, a Fancy would sometimes take a Yahoo, to retire into a Corner, to lie down and howl, and groan, and spurn away all that came near him, although he were young and fat, wanted neither Food nor Water; nor did the Servants imagine what could possibly ail him. And the only Remedy they found was to set hi.. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| 089b5d5 | Yet, Malice never was his Aim; He lash'd the Vice but spar'd the Name. No individual could resent, Where thousands equally were meant. His Satry points at no Defect, | Swift Jonathan | ||
| fd51338 | She sat there, with her feet in the water, not doing a thing, and all I could think was that this woman had changed my life. She'd changed the very universe I lived in--not by her actions or words, but with the curl of her lips as she smiled and the light in her eyes when she gazed upon mine. | Helen Cooper | ||
| eb0b714 | Helen's secretary's phone was ringing off the hook as Clavier and I passed through the antechamber and into the hallway. Once we were outside, I rounded on him. "I'm not going to apologize. What you did to me was unconscionable, and now that Alexa is sick--" The urge to strike out at him welled up in me like a flash fire, and I braced my hand against the wall so as not to give in to the impulse. "I want access to everything. And your full c.. | adventure paranormal-fiction romance | Nell Stark | |
| 63597ca | And shame it is, if that a priest take keep, To see a shitten shepherd and clean sheep: | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 30d27a0 | La moraleja de todas las tragedias es la misma: que la Fortuna siempre ataca a los reinos prepotentes cuando menos lo esperan. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 2a3e999 | He kept his tippet stuffed with pins for curls, And pocket-knives, to give to pretty girls. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 51addfe | We're like two dogs in battle on their own; They fought all day but neither got the bone, There came a kite above them, nothing loth, | translator | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| cce60d6 | For sondry scoles maken sotile clerkis; Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 68d0a17 | la virtud que corona la perfeccion es la paciencia"." | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| fbe0bf1 | And after winter folweth grene May. | follow may spring winter | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| a245571 | Three years went by in happiness and health; He bore himself so well in peace and war That there was no one Theseus valued more. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 6399f8c | the harm that's in the world now as often comes through folly as through malice. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| db72f07 | Though there was nowhere one so busy as he/ He was less busy than he seemed to be. | humor | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| 4dfb22d | The time always flees; it will wait for no man. And through you are still in the flower of your young manhood, age creeps on steadily, as quiet as a stone, and death meanaces every age and strikes in every rank, for no one escapes. As surely as we know that we will die, so we are uncertain of the day when death shall fall on us. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 13b6e76 | Woe to him who is alone, since, if he falls, he has no help to rise. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 83f6672 | doctors & druggists wash each other's hands | corruption fda partnership | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| 1c4160a | Truly she was of elegant deportment, and very pleasing and amiable in bearing. She took pains to counterfeit the manners of the court and to be dignified in behavior and to be held worthy of reverence. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| b2d6839 | Well did he know the taverns in every town, and every hosteller and bar-maid, far better than he knew any leper or beggar. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| a6857b6 | When kindled was the fire, with sober face Unto Diana spoke she in that place. "O thou chaste goddess of the wildwood green, By whom all heaven and earth and sea are seen, Queen of the realm of Pluto, dark and low, Goddess of maidens, that my heart dost know For all my years, and knowest what I desire, Oh, save me from thy vengeance and thine ire That on Actaeon fell so cruelly. Chaste goddess, well indeed thou knowest that I Desire to .. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 20060eb | Yet from the wise take this for common sense That to the poor all times are out of joint Therefore beware of reaching such a point. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 458ae0b | Full is my heart of revelry and grace." But suddenly he fell in grievous case; For ever the latter end of joy is woe. God knows that worldly joys do swiftly go; And if a rhetorician could but write, He in some chronicle might well indite And mark it down as sovereign in degree." | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| b292f2d | history's greatest lessons is that once the state embraces a religion, the nature of that religion changes radically. It loses its nonviolent component | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 03e16b0 | nonviolent force is a moral argument. The lesson is that if the nonviolent side can be led to violence, they have lost the argument and they are destroyed. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 99da990 | It was said that in the markets to the south of Taghaza salt was exchanged for its weight in gold, which was an exaggeration. The misconception comes from the West African style of silent barter noted by Herodotus and subsequently by many other Europeans. In the gold-producing regions of West Africa, a pile of gold would be set out, and a salt merchant would counter with a pile of salt, each side altering their piles until an agreement was .. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 0dad00a | The Roman historian Plutarch estimated that the civilized Romans under Julius Caesar, in his decade-long campaign in Gaul, destroyed 800 towns and villages and enslaved 3 million people. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 66efc56 | In the first century A.D., Pliny estimated that the average Roman citizen consumed only 25 grams of salt a day. The modern American consumes even less if the salt content of packaged food is not included. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| b974bd3 | The hams of Westphalia, which were dried, salted, and then smoked with unique local woods--a recipe still followed today in Westphalia--were very popular with Romans. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 8d718c4 | Take the tail of the female tuna--and I'm talking of the large female tuna whose mother city is Byzantium. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| a58efe4 | It became a requirement of prosciutto di Parma that it be made from pigs that had been fed the whey from Parmesan cheese. Less choice parts of pigs fed on this whey qualified to be sent to the nearby town of Felino, where they were ground up and made into salami. (The word salami is derived from the Latin verb to salt.) | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 5cee897 | It would be folly to assume that an Indian Rockefeller would be better than an American Rockefeller. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| fb652de | Nevertheless, Rouen merchants who sold craspoix to the English paid high tariffs at London Bridge, which suggests this salted whale blubber was a luxury product in England. This would not be the last time the food of French peasants was sold as a treat for wealthy Englishmen. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 84f52d2 | Viking is a term--thought to have its root in the old Norse vika, meaning "to go off"--for Scandinavians who left their native land to seek wealth in commerce." | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 5a5c2f7 | Honore-Gabriel Riqueti, the Comte de Mirabeau, the man who had defied Louis XVI by opening the National Assembly, said, "In the final analysis, the people will judge the revolution by this fact alone--does it take more or less money? Are they better off? Do they have more work? And is that work better paid?" | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| ce29bba | Massachusetts, like Queen Elizabeth, encouraged salt making through the granting of monopolies to those who showed the skill to produce salt cheaply. The colony granted Samuel Winslow a ten-year monopoly to employ his ideas on salt producing, which is considered the first patent issued in America. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 0633199 | One of the gabelle's most irritating inventions was the sel du devoir, the salt duty. Every person in the Grande Gabelle over the age of eight was required to purchase seven kilograms (15.4 pounds) of salt each year at a fixed high government price. This was far more salt than could possibly be used, unless it was for making salt fish, sausages, hams, and other salt-cured goods. But using the sel du devoir to make salted products was illega.. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 290076a | It was the seventeenth-century English who gave corned beef its name--corns being any kind of small bits, in this case salt crystals. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| b505c01 | The salt intake of Europeans, much of it in the form of salted fish, rose from forty grams a day per person in the sixteenth century to seventy grams in the eighteenth century. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| ab54cba | Castiglione has 150 employees. But every March another 120 are hired to work the tonnara. The leader is known by the Arab word Raiz, and the fishermen sing an Arab song, "Cialome" (pronounced SHALOMAY), to invoke the gods for the hunt." | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 610cc9e | At the height of their power in the fifteenth century, the Hanseatics were believed to have had at their command 40,000 vessels and 300,000 men. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| bfcd409 | It is an old remark, that all arts and sciences have a mutual dependence upon each other... Thus men, very different in genius and pursuits, become mutually subservient to each other; and a very useful kind of commerce is established by which the old arts are improved, and new ones daily invented. | Mark Kurlansky |