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A Nursery Magician took
All little children by the hand:
And led them laughing through the book
Where Alice walks in Wonderland.

— Henry Savile Clarke A Selection from the Letters of Lewis Carroll to his Child-Friends (1933)

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Nobody but a highlander can go about without his trousers.

Whenever I had spotted a real good thing, my funds would never run to paper and stamps to apply for shares.

All apartments are eligible as I ever heard tell of, just as all shopkeepers, barring that publican next door, are respectable.

Be speedy, for I was born under a thirsty star.

We will indulge in all those miscellaneous commercial operations, which when conducted on a small scale are called thieving, but a large scale, financing.

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Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

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Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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