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madly in love is not good
Bonum est, pauxillum amare sane, insane non bonum est —It is good to be moderately sane in love; to be madly in love is not good.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

miles in length I named George
The range which had thrown out so many creeks, and contained so much water, and which is over forty miles in length, I named George Gill's Range, after my brother-in-law.
— from Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest Giles

market in London is never greater
The cost of transportation from the ranches in the Argentine Republic to Covent Garden market in London is never greater, and often less, than from Kansas City to New York; so that our producers, in addition to the difference in the price of beef, will have the freight from New York to Liverpool against them.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

mine if lucky if not God
A share in the bare sale of the mine if lucky; if not, God help us!
— from Spinifex and Sand A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Ausralia by David Wynford Carnegie


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