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Arabian Nights
Entertainments, or the Thousand and one Nights
Entertainments, or the Thousand and one Nights
1
Who will change old lamps for new ones?…new lamps for old ones?
Open Sesame!
Who will change old lamps for new ones?…new lamps for old ones?
"The History of Aladdin"
Open Sesame!
"The History of Ali Baba"
Arabin, William
1773–1841
1773–1841
1
Prisoner, God has given you good abilities, instead of which you go about the country stealing ducks.
They will steal the very teeth out of your mouth as you walk through the streets.
I know it from experience
.
on the citizens of Uxbridge
Prisoner, God has given you good abilities, instead of which you go about the country stealing ducks.
also attributed to a Revd Mr Alderson, in Frederick Pollock
Essays in the Law
(1922)
They will steal the very teeth out of your mouth as you walk through the streets.
I know it from experience
.
on the citizens of Uxbridge
Sir W. Ballantine
Some Experiences of a Barrister's Life
(1882) vol. 1, ch. 6
Aragon, Louis
1897–1982
1897–1982
1
Ô mois des floraisons mois des métamorphoses
Mai qui fut sans nuage et Juin poignardé
Je n'oublierai jamais les lilas ni les roses
Ni ceux que le printemps dans ses plis a gardé.
O month of flowerings, month of metamorphoses,
May without cloud and June that was stabbed,
I shall never forget the lilac and the roses
Nor those whom spring has kept in its folds.
Ô mois des floraisons mois des métamorphoses
Mai qui fut sans nuage et Juin poignardé
Je n'oublierai jamais les lilas ni les roses
Ni ceux que le printemps dans ses plis a gardé.
O month of flowerings, month of metamorphoses,
May without cloud and June that was stabbed,
I shall never forget the lilac and the roses
Nor those whom spring has kept in its folds.
"Les lilas et les roses" (1940)
Arbus, Diane
1923–71
1923–71
1
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Patricia Bosworth
Diane Arbus: a Biography
(1985)
Arbuthnot, John
1667–1735
1667–1735
1
Law is a bottomless pit.
Law is a bottomless pit.
The History of John Bull
(1712) title of first pamphlet
Archilochus
1
The fox knows many things—the hedgehog one
big
one.
The fox knows many things—the hedgehog one
big
one.
E. Diehl (ed.)
Anthologia Lyrica Graeca
(3rd ed., 1949–52) vol. 1, no. 103.
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