Before the daies, the town was full of the 5 Challengers cartells, full of Rodomontades: but in the execution, there were noe personall reencounters, nor other triall of any ability, then running at the Quintain, and the Ring.
— from Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne
I do not believe in forms of religion, but in the existence of a God!"
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V. by Walter Scott
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