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The best holidays are the ones that make us long for home.
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Thomas Huxley believed that if schools did not ground their pupils in common sense, life’s examinations would be painful.
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Sir Philip Sidney reminded comedians that when the audience is laughing they aren’t necessarily the better for it.
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As penance for involuntary manslaughter, Heracles was sentenced to slavery under the playful rod of Omphale, Queen of Lydia.
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Persian scholar Al-Ghazali feared for any country where morals were lagging behind brains.
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When the Reformers sold off the treasures of Durham Cathedral, they sold a priceless piece of Scottish history into oblivion.