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"Brer Rabbit year dis, en he stop en lissen.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris
Yet what is their desert? Bounty is wrong'd, interpreted as due; Mortals can challenge not a ray, by right, Yet do expect the whole of Cynthia's light.
— from Cynthia's Revels; Or, The Fountain of Self-Love by Ben Jonson
No Assyrian or Babylonian relics yet discovered, equal them in delicacy of workmanship, and the best examples of the art of engraving on gems,—an art which appears to have reached great perfection amongst the Assyrians,—are unknown to us, except through these impressions.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard
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