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Many and many a man has come to trouble—so he will say—by following his wife’s advice.

— Howard Pyle Twilight Land (1895)

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When man’s strength fails, woman’s wit prevails.

Twilight Land (1895)

Give a fool heaven and earth, and all the stars, and he will make ducks and drakes of them.

Twilight Land (1895)

“You look as hale and strong as ever,” says St. Nicholas.
“Ah, yes,” says Ill-Luck, “I find plenty to do in this world of woe.”

Twilight Land (1895)

In the old, old days when men were wiser than they are in these times, there lived a great philosopher and magician, by name Nicholas Flamel. Not only did he know all the actual sciences, but the black arts as well, and magic, and what not.

Twilight Land (1895)

There was once upon a time a man whom other men called Aben Hassen the Wise. He had read a thousand books of magic, and knew all that the ancients or moderns had to tell of the hidden arts.

Twilight Land (1895)

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