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Louis XIV. Other kings let their ministers make their mistakes for them, but Louis insisted on making the important mistakes personally.

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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

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The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.

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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

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