If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth removed from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that so much of earth and water wrought
I must attend time's leisure with my moan,
Receiving nought by elements so slow
But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.

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"There is nothing in life so bad that, with a little help, cannot be made worse"
~ Ben Harper in My Family.

"To not know what came before is to remain forever a child"
~ Forgotten

"Those to whom nothing has happened cannot comprehend the unimportance of events"
~ T.S. Eliot.

"You remember the Bubonic plague? It was very popular over here once; a lot of Filigree Hamsters came over on ships ...."
~ Basil Fawlty, Fawlty Towers.

"While your goings off are coming on, your comings on are going off"
~ A teacher at an old Drama School.

"If you keep one eye on the past then you are blind in one eye; but if you keep two eyes on the future then you are blind in both"
~ Russian proverb.

"Almost all Government policy is wrong ... but frightfully well carried out."
~ Sir Humphrey Appleton, Yes Minister.

"It is necessary to get behind someone before you can stab them in the back."
~ Sir Humphrey Appleton, Yes Minister.

"There was more than one Lobster present at the birth of Jesus?"
~ Love Actually.

"Cake or Death?"
~ Eddie Izzard.

"I like my women like I like my coffee ... in a plastic cup!"
~ Eddie Izzard.

"Never buy a woman anything that can't be worn in the evening."
~ Lady Chevely An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde.

"No one's allowed to be that stupid"
~ Dr. Weaver, ER.

"Titter Ye Not."
~ Frankie Howerd.

"... and the banana said to the pillar box ...."
~ Simon Rouse on Des and Mel

"Clouseau: Who were the two men who tried to kill you?
Killers."
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"A little peace never killed anyone."
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"Art is an air bubble in an upturned boat."
~ Jeanette Winterson.

"Why be happy when you can be normal?"
~ Mrs Winterson (Jeanette Winterson's mother).

"The pepper stabbed the parmesan."
~ MidSommer Murders.

"You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything."
~ Dolly Parton

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
~ Anais Nin

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• World War II didn't technically end until 3rd September 1990, with the reunification of East and West Germany
• In France the first recorded use of the Guillotine was in 1792 and last in 1977! The final unlucky soul was a one-legged criminal.
• The last Western country to grant women the right to vote was Switzerland. The year was 1971!
• For 5 days in the 13th Century (1281 to be precise), Chelmsford was the capital of England.
• If a soldier of the Roman Empire lost his shield he was punished with crucifixion. The idea was to deter others.
• The red fuzzy bit on the top of a Roman centurian's helmet had a practical use: it would point the direction during battle.
• Rome had it's own smog, caused by the burning of dung and straw, called 'nephos' (which is greek for 'cloud')
• The first breakfast cereal, introduced in 1891, was 'Shredded Wheat'.
• The Crimean Wars' dates are widely acknowledged to be 1854-6, but when Britain went to war with Russia the declaration read: "Victoria, Queen of Britian, Ireland, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the dominions beyond the seas". The peace treaty of '56 failed to mention Berwick-upon-Tweed so, technically, they remained at war. In 1966 the Mayor of Berwick-upon-Tweed signed a peace treaty.
• HMS Queen's mascot during the Crimean War was a Tortoise names Timothy. He died in 2004.
• Whiskey was invented in Italy.
• Haggis was invented by the ancient Romans.

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Literary Trivia:

• The 20th Century's most famous Russian Novel, 'Dr Zhivago', was written by Boris parsnip. pasternak is Russian for parsnip.

English Language Trivia:

• In the 1850s the word 'cigar' was spelt 'segar',
• The word 'canvas' comes from the name of the material originally used for painting - 'cannabis'.
• The English Language has 33 vowel sounds.

Amusing Collective Nouns:

• A Mischief of Mice
• An ostentation of peacocks

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• The Marathon in the 1904 Olympics was dogged by controversy:

  The first two to cross the line were disqualified for taking poison.

  The winner, Fred Lotz, only ran the last 11 miles of the race, having travelled by car for the rest of the way.

  The first African Olympic Marathon runner had to run a more than 1km out of the way because he was being chased by a dog.

• The caffeine content in 400 cups of coffee drunk over the course of 1 hour would kill you.
• Outer Space is only 62 miles away. It's defined as anywhere outside the Earths' atmosphere.
• The sepia tint on old photographs was made using the ink from Cuttlefish.
• If you combine Carbon, Oxygen + Hydgrogen in different proportions you get: testosterone, vanilla, aspirin, glucose, vinegar, alcohol and custard.
• The piechart was invented by Florence Nightingale.
• Champagne is fizzy as a result of impurities in the glass. If your glass it perfectly clean, it wouldn't fizz.
• The World's longest animal is the bootlace worm at up to 60 meters.
• Some Berrys are: Banana, tomato, apple, oranges, lemon, grapefruit, kiwi, watermelons, grapes, cucumbers, passionfruit, papaya, pomegranite, gooseberry, blueberry. Definition: a fruit that contains stones/pips.

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