"The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally."

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Source : Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Jesting of Arlington Stringham"

Hector Hugh Munro

“I can't believe you brought me here to see some guy who heals people out of a tent!”
“The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.”
“The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading.”

Source : "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me". Anthology, September 28, 2010.
“I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes”

Source : "Sporting world shocked by Pistorius arrest". "The World TODAY" with Timothy McDonald, www.abc.net.au. February 15, 2013.
“Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.”
“The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be implemented is approval by the House of Commons followed by a referendum of the people of Britain. There is no question of implementing it by the back door.”
“Pain is erased when inflicted upon others.”
“I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.”

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