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  The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead....
• Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay, Horace ate himself one day.
  He didn't stop to say his grace, he just sat down and ate his face....
• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. -- Orson Welle
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  -- Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) -- Human Life...
• A father in Georgia called his local IRS office to ask if he could deduct the cost of his daughter's wedding as "a total loss".
• Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law.
  The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and agai...
• The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 1...
• But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common objects that he could think of, and had screamed
  You lamp! You towel! You plate!" and so on. -- Sigmund Freud...
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