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Birds - An Anthology by Jaqueline Mitchell (Editor); Eric Fitch Daglish (Illustrator)
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Category: Gifts & Humour
Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's "full-hearted evensong of joy illimited." Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts "dash round in circles." Rachel Carson watches sanderlings at the ocean's edge, scurrying "across the beach like little ghosts." From early times, we have bee ...Show more
London in Quotations by Jaqueline Mitchell
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Category: Gifts & Humour
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford,' said Samuel Johnson in 1777. Since then the capital has been characterised variously as a 'riddle', a 'cesspool' and a 'modern Babylon', and both Londoners and visitors alike have continued to share th ...Show more
New York in Quotations by Jaqueline Mitchell
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Category: Gifts & Humour | Series: In Quotations
'Make your mark in New York and you are a made man' wrote Mark Twain, encapsulating both the naked ambition of its citizens and the opportunities up for grabs in the Big Apple. Others take a more cynical approach: it's 'an aviary over-stocked with jays' (O. Henry), 'a sucked orange' (Ralph Waldo Emerson ...Show more
Paris in Quotations by MITCHELL, JAQUELINE
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Category: Gifts & Humour | Series: In Quotations
Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalized and most of all captured the heart of many a visitor. For Dickens it is the 'most extraordinary place in the world', for Hazlitt, 'a beast of a city', and for French writers, the essence of civilization: 'I maintain that, for people of breed ...Show more
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