But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while … - Miguel de Cervantes

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I saw this vision with a beautiful plastic bag in Kensington High Street,. . . and then you didn't see the face because he had this blond thing [indicating a sweeping fringe across his face] that was, you know, too much!

Miguel de Cervantes

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

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History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

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The wicked are always ungrateful.

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