Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch

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Oh, strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch! And some men eased themselves like settin...
Tuesday, 1 March 2011

The only solution which at first seemed definitely excluded was the Bonapatist one

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The only solution which at first seemed definitely excluded was the Bonapatist one. In 1871 the political and administrative personnel of th...

You can't press your suit and another fellow's trousers simultaneously

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If Catsmeat had been tied up with a lot of correspondence of this type [love letters], he wouldn't have had much time for attending to m...

His brow was sicklied o'er

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Yet now, as I say, he was low-spirited. It stuck out a mile. His brow was sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought and his air was th...

Mrs Elton was wanting notice, which nobody had inclination to pay

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Emma doubted their getting on very well; for Mr Knightley seemed little disposed for conversation; Mrs Elton was wanting notice, which nobod...
Sunday, 13 February 2011

I met Che Guevara sharp as a cat

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I met Che Guevara sharp as a cat in Cuba, and Guy Burgess swollen with drink and self-reproach in Moscow, and Kim Philby, whom I thought I c...
Thursday, 10 February 2011

The place and function of rhetoric in the public life of the Empire had changed

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The place and function of rhetoric in the public life of the Empire had changed: between the reign of Augustus and the end of the second cen...