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May you reach your longed-for fatherland in safety, and may fortune interpose no impediment to your prosperous journey; may the eyes of your friends and kinsmen behold you enjoying in peace and tranquillity the remaining days of your life—and that they may be as many as those of Nestor!"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“There is not a war in the world, no, nor an injustice, but you women are answerable for it, not in that you have provoked, but in that you have not hindered.
— from Almost a Woman by Mary Wood-Allen
May you reach your longed-for fatherland in safety, and may fortune interpose no impediment to your prosperous journey; may the eyes of your friends and kinsmen behold you enjoying in peace and tranquillity the remaining days of your life—and that they may be as many as those of Nestor!”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Now the great ship found in Norway in the year 1880 is undoubtedly one of the finest of the vessels used by Danes and Norsemen.
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant
"God bless their laughter," said she, "for, indeed, no ill thing yet came from laughter."
— from The Capsina: An Historical Novel by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
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