If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.
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To make a hole-in-one in a major, that was great, ... It's an honor for me to play in a major with all these great players and be under par... and then make a hole-in-one to boot. That might put me in the history books.John Aubrey
The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
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The parliament intended to have hanged him and he expected no less, but resolved to be hanged with the Bible under one arm and Magna Carta under the other.
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Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech. Ben Jonson and he did gather humors of men daily wherever they came.
John Aubrey
When he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.
John Aubrey
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