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"The Husband's Message" is an anonymous Old English poem, 53 lines long [1] and found only on folio 123 of the Exeter Book.The poem is cast as the private address of an unknown first-person speaker to a wife, challenging the reader to discover the speaker's identity and the nature of the conversation, the mystery of which is enhanced by a burn-hole at the beginning of the poem.
The Betrothed" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, first published in book form in Departmental Ditties (1886). It is a tongue-in-cheek work by the young bachelor Kipling, who affected a very worldly-wise stance. In it, he takes as his epigraph the report of evidence in a breach of promise case, "You must choose between me and your cigar". [1]
Too much of a good thing; Truth is stranger than fiction; Truth is more valuable if it takes you a few years to find it – often attributed to French author Jules Renard (1864–1910) (Like) Trying to grow a goose (The) truth will out; Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you; Two birds with one stone; Two can play at that ...
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Here are 85 ideas for good morning texts to send your crush or partner, whether you're looking for cute, funny, flirty, romantic, or hot morning messages.
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The love that dare not speak its name is a phrase from the last line of the poem "Two Loves" by Lord Alfred Douglas, written in September 1892 and published in the Oxford magazine The Chameleon in December 1894. It was mentioned at Oscar Wilde's gross indecency trial and is usually interpreted as a euphemism for homosexuality. [1]
Her 14-page essay of 1958, "The Necessity of Not Believing", concludes: "There is no reason to be sad, as some people are sad when they feel religion slipping off from them. There is no reason to be sad, it is a good thing." The essay was unveiled at a meeting of the Cambridge Humanist Society. [7] Smith died of a brain tumour on 7 March 1971. [2]