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

— Howard Pyle Twilight Land (1895)

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

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

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“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.”

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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.

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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.

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