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The Oxhill News June 2003 |
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Quotations of the Month Accepted abbreviations for June include J., Ju. and Jun. Considering the length of the word ‘June’, none of them seem to help a lot, really. Midsummer Day is another of the Quarter Days (we had Lady Day in March), and is 24th June. The world’s first operational stored-program
computer ran its first program in June 1948, at The You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables. Samuel Johnson, Of literary criticism. p. 409. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Speech at City Hall, (I understand that a Berliner is a small sticky cake, which says nothing for JFK’s ego – Ed.) We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Lord Macaulay, We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe. Cardinal Newman, Letter to Mrs William Froude, Mandy Rice-Davies, When told that Lord Astor had
denied her allegations. Trial of Stephen Ward, I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face. John Ruskin, [On Whistler’s ‘Nocturne in Black
and Gold’], letter, If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. Lord Salisbury, Letter to Lord Lytton. The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. Wendell O, my Luve’s like a red red rose Robert Burns, My Love is like a Red Red Rose |
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