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Cake . A cake and a bad custom are fated to be broken. - Gâteau et mauvaise coutume se doivent rompre {French. Proverb.}
Cake . Have I not earn'd my cake in baking of it? {Tennyson.}
Cake . If you can't get a loaf, don't throw away a cake. {Proverb.}
Cake . The nurse's bread is sweeter than the mother's cake. {Frisian. Proverb.}
Cake . Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? {George Herbert.}
Cakes . No one can bake cakes for the whole world. {Serv. Proverb.}
Calamity . Calamity is man's true touchstone {Beaumont and Fletcher.}
Calamity . How weak are the hearts of mortals under calamity! - Ut sunt molles in calamitate mortalium animi! {Tacitus.}
Calamity . Human courage should rise to the height of human calamity. {Gen. Lee.}
Calamity . It is a common calamity; we have all been mad once. - Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes {Mantuanus.}
 
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Rab : n. A rod or stick used by masons in mixing hair with mortar.
 
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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