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Kennedy benefited, too, from the fact that the country perceived him to be, like Roosevelt, a patrician. To be sure, Kennedy did n ...
The Eagle has landed.
"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
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If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms--neve ...
In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to rea ...
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greed ...
We are fortunate to have inherited an institution (the House of Lords) which we certainly should never have had the intelligence t ...
As a great buck it powerfully appeared,
Pushing the crumpled water up ahead,
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When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all ...
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