Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.


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"There beauty half her glory veils, In cabs, those gondolas on wheels."
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The medicine chest of the soul.
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Food for the soul. [Lat., Nutrimentum spiritus.]
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When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow; And when the leaves in Summer-tim...
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The grave's the market place.
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Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole, The needle pointing to Him is our soul.
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A blockhead, bit by fleas, put out the light, And chuckling cried, "Now you can't see to bite."
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But death is sure to kill all he can get And all is fish with him that comes to net.
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One that is neither flesh not fish.
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A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt, A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt.
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Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.
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A man is either free or he is not.
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Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Meta...
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This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke Fresh to all Ages.
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This ae nighte, this ae nighte Every nighte and all; Fire and sleete, and candle lighte ...
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Terrible he rode alone, With his yemen sword for aid; Ornament it carried none But the n...
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The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The ki...
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An Austrian army awfully arrayed.
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As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down, As Jove, descending fro...
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Sancta Maria ad Nives.
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The Natural Clock-work by the might One Wound up at first, and ever since have gone.
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Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul; Death the h...
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Live ye, he says, I flee.
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If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream; But if 'tis ...
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Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on, and time is waxing old. - Un...
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Begone about your business.
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As the long hours do pass away, So doth the life of man decay.
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Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not, Tyme passeth and speketh not.
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The cordial agreement which exists between the governments of France and Great Britain. [Fr., La ...
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Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.
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That blessed word Mesopotamia.
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"Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" ...
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Some say "to-morrow" never comes, A saying oft thought right; But if to-morrow never came, ...
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Our country, however bounded.
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Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all nations of the world.
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Our common Father and Deliverer, to whose prudence, wisdom and valour we owe our Peace, Liberty and...
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Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People."
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The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man, History and tradition ...
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths that we take but, by the moments that take your breath...
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Why don't they serve hot dogs at McDonalds? No one could order a McWeiner with a straight face! Just...
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To be a star you must shine your own light, follow your own path and don’t worry about the darknes...
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