Bygones Worth Remembering

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 It was a saying of Dryden that "Anything, though ever so little, which a man speaks of himself, in my opinion, is still too much." This depends upon what a writer says. No man is required to give an opinion of himself. Others will do that much better, if he will wait But if a man may not speak of himself at all—re...

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South American Fights and Fighters

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One of the commonly misunderstood phrases in the language is \"the Spanish Main.\" To the ordinary individual it suggests the Caribbean Sea. Although Shakespeare in \"Othello,\" makes one of the gentlemen of Cyprus say that he \"cannot \'twixt heaven and main descry a sail,\" and, therefore, with other poets, gives warrant to the appli...

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