Miranda: A Midsummer Madness, Volumen3

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H.S. King, 1873
 

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Página 197 - Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all possible misfortunes is generally followed by a much greater.
Página 199 - Who lived to the age of a hundred and ten, And died by a fall from a cherry tree then...
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Página 197 - It was an Irish newspaper that said of Robespierre that " he left no children behind him, except a brother, who was killed at the same" time." An Irish officer, when writing home from India, praising the much-abused climate' as really one of the best under the sun, added, " But a lot of young fellows come out here, and they eat and they drink, and they drink and they eat, and they die; and then they write home to their friends...
Página 110 - I know what you are going to say; you are going to tell me that the Phoenix rises out of her own ashes.

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