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G. . Jack shall pipe and Jill shall dance.
G. A. Bürger. . (die Lästerzunge), - When you are stung by slanderous tongues
G. A. Bürger. . Gone is gone! Lost is lost. - Hin ist hin! Verloren ist verloren
G. A. Bürger. . The man who invented 'if' and 'but' must surely have converted chopt straw into gold. - Der Mann, der das Wenn und das Aber
G. A. Bürger. . The man who invented 'Ifs' and 'Buts' must have first made gold out of straw choppings.
G. A. Sala. . Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.
G. A. Sala. . You cannot fathom your mind. There is a well
G. Cleveland. . Party honesty is party expediency.
G. Colman. . Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
G. D. Prentice. . Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true.
 
Old English 'word lottery' pick

Tympano : n. A kettledrum; -- chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum.

 
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev. James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
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