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reviews and die eating ortolans sich
To live reading such reviews and die eating ortolans - sich is my aspiration.
— from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson

realization and distinct experience of some
Beginning with the worship of the physical Race-life, the course of psychologic evolution has been first to the worship of the Tribe (or of the Totem which represents the tribe); then to the worship of the human-formed God of the tribe—the God who dies and rises again eternally, as the tribe passes on eternal—though its members perpetually perish; then to the conception of an undying Savior, and the realization and distinct experience of some kind of Super-consciousness which does certainly reside, more or less hidden, in the deeps of the mind, and has been waiting through the ages for its disclosure and recognition.
— from Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter

Rand As Dame Empire O so
Since just as deft his story wove The yellow Devil in the Rand, As Dame Empire, O, so high suave, Took bleary Mammon by the hand—
— from Boer War Lyrics by Louis Selmer

readily as did ever old soldier
Veterans that have passed through the wars—if my father, that was but just thirty years of age, may be so called—do commonly love the quietude of a country retreat (and it was thus that Augustus Cæsar and others did reward their legions); and my father affected this manner of life as readily as did ever old soldier in the world, and, being a man of useful parts, he turned his sword into a ploughshare with good result, and this not only of profit of money, but of health also.
— from With the King at Oxford: A Tale of the Great Rebellion by Alfred John Church


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