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Prevention is better than cure.
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Only by the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal c...
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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A P...
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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than rea...
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As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates ...
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Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invit...
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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and par...
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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they ...
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a scene upon stage, show...
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If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has...
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, il...
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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of...
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack pri...
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In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a...
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Fools are without number.
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People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortun...
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one t...
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Your library is your paradise.
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I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insan...
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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the sha...
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They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. D...
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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongs...
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Time takes away the grief of men.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is t...
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Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to...
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When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they ...
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard wor...
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It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures,...
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No one respects a talent that is concealed.
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Concealed talent brings no reputation.
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their bell...
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Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the...
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Fortune favors the audacious.
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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the tim...
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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, ...
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Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of natur...
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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of...
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there...
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.
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Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands,...
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Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941 Paul does not forbid yo...
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Trinity Sunday I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy ...
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack p...
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
[In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
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The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal
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Do not get excited over the noise you have made
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never ...
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
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Humility is truth.
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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Fortune favors the audacious
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it...
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To know nothing is the happiest life
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Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote,...
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I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives...
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Beware lest clamor be taken for counsel.
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, il...
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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(Only by) the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal...
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Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance.
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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin
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They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclai...
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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than rea...
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A man must hug, and dandle, and kistle, and play a hundred little tricks with his bed-fellow when he...
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Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin
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Man is to man either a god or a wolf
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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it
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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
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A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest member...
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By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of h...
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In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest member...
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Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of natur...
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It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptu...
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By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's mi...
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War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
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To know nothing is the happiest life.
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, an...
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We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.]
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An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis....
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Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
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It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. [Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere...
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He touches nothing but he adds a charm.
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
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Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [La...
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Between the victim and the stone knife. [Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]
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Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.
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Submit or resign. [Lat., Se soumettre ou se demettre.]
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We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow ou...
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A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, co...
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The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears. [Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua eti...
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Classes and masses.
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It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable...
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(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in...
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From hence, no question, has sprung an observation . . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that...
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I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! ...
DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
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In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
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When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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cuanto más perfecto es el amor, mayor es la locura, y mayor la felicidad.
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Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly ...
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The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.
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Your library is your paradise.
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Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.
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The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
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A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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dulce es la guerra para los que no la han experimentado.
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When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.
ERASMUS Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts...
ERASMUS DARWIN He who allows oppression shares the crime.
ERASMUS DARWIN No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. ...
ERASMUS DARWIN And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.
ERASMUS DARWIN Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on...
ERASMUS DARWIN Stroke follow strokes, the sparkling ingot shines,/ Flows the red slag, the lengthening bar refines;...
ERASMUS DARWIN I want to give the teams a normal cricket wicket, one the guys can bat on, but which also rewards bo...
CHRISTO ERASMUS I can't take the risk of leaving too much moisture in the pitch. At this time of the year, one does ...
CHRISTO ERASMUS I decided to produce my own pitch, which was similar to the one on which we played Australia four ye...
CHRISTO ERASMUS No, Sir, because I have time to think before I speak, and don't ask impertinent questions.
ERASMUS DARWIN With zealous step he climbs the upland lawn, And bows in homage to the rising dawn; Imbibes with eag...
ERASMUS DARWIN A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
ERASMUS DARWIN The late Mr. D...
ERASMUS DARWIN Organic life beneath the shoreless wavesWas born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;First forms minu...
ERASMUS DARWIN Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afar / Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; / Or on w...
ERASMUS DARWIN It's been scientifically proven that at the end of a game more oxygen is being used to keep tired bo...
RASSIE ERASMUS In college, sometimes, a record like this gets you into a bowl game. But it's not that way at all (i...
ERASMUS JAMES For me to come back out there and get to him again would be great.
ERASMUS JAMES I have to improve on a lot of things. I'm looking forward to next year. I want to work on a few thin...
ERASMUS JAMES I'm definitely in football shape. I was working out twice a day ... so I'm definitely in football sh...
ERASMUS JAMES They said it was mono-like symptoms but it wasn't mono. I'm feeling much better this week.
ERASMUS JAMES I need to get stronger. That's my No. 1 goal. That'll be big-time.
ERASMUS JAMES I'm really excited. You see him on TV all the time and see what he can do.
ERASMUS JAMES I'm very excited. I'll see where I'm at in terms [of playing] with a lot of the veteran guys, guys t...
ERASMUS JAMES Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;
First ...
ERASMUS DARWIN I might still make some last minute changes due to the weather.
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