Once upon a time, an old legend says, in a splendid palace a king lay dying. By his couch knelt his only son, with tears streaming down his face; but only a few quiet words were now and then spoken.
"Father, you remember the beautiful silver bell hanging above the palace,—the one you had made years ago, of such pure tone that the maker stood entranced at its…

— George Melville Baker
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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬: "𝐎𝐟 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬" -

When writing children's verse, it's hard to see where sincerity ends and parody begins . . . .

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La morale est la science qui se propose de déterminer la loi de l'activité humaine.
Lorsque la morale se pose cette question d'une manière générale, sans s'occuper des cas particuliers où se trouvent les hommes, elle est dite générale ou théorique. Lorsqu'elle cherche comment cette loi générale, une fois établie, doit s'appliquer dans les conditions…

— Cours de philosophie
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THE PROLOGUEedit
"HEY! Godde's mercy!" said our Hoste tho,
"Now such a wife I pray God keep me fro'.
Lo, suche sleightes and subtilities
In women be; for aye as busy as bees
Are they us silly men for to deceive,
And from the soothe will they ever weive,
As this Merchante's tale it proveth well.

— Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Thou seist ful sooth," quod Roger, "by my fey;
But `sooth pley quaad pley,' as the Flemyng seith.
And therfore, Herry Bailly, by thy feith,
Be thou nat wrooth, er we departen heer,
Though that my tale be of an hostileer.
But nathelees I wol nat telle it yit,
But er we parte, ywis, thou shalt be quit."
And ther-with-al he lough and made…

— Geoffrey Chaucer
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Then gan our Host to laughe wondrous loud,
And said, "I see well it is necessary
Where that we go good drink with us to carry;
For that will turne rancour and disease
T'accord and love, and many a wrong appease.
O Bacchus, Bacchus, blessed be thy name,
That so canst turnen earnest into game!
Worship and thank be to thy deity.
Of that…

— Geoffrey Chaucer
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Fable-uary week 3, work in progress.

The Lion and the Mouse, an Aesopian fable.

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Ci suit le prologue du Conte du Manciple.

Ne savez-vous pas où se trouve un petit village
qui s’appelle Bob-up-and-down,
sous la forêt de Blean, sur le chemin de Canterbury.
Là notre hôte se mit à plaisanter et à railler
et dit : « Messeigneurs, qu’est ceci ! le grison est embourbé !
N’y a-t-il personne qui, pour or ni pour prière,
ne veuille…

— Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Terms of use of the Wikimedia Foundation require that GFDL-licensed text imported after November 2008 must also be dual-licensed with another compatible license. "Content available only under GFDL is not permissible" (§7.4). This does not apply to non-text media.

— Andrei Lubensky
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Le poëte jamais n’est maître de sa lyre,
Dont les cordes souvent éclatent sous ses doigts ;
C’est lorsqu’il sent le plus qu’il peut le moins décrire,
Et que, voulant chanter, il demeure sans voix.

Lorsqu’à l’entour de lui tout n’est que poésie,
Que la nature en fête étale ses splendeurs,

Seul il reste muet, l’âme comme saisie,
Se sentant trop petit…

— Alice de Chambrier
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