Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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Twenty-five-year-old Robert Clive’s extraordinary daring helped to prevent India falling into the hands of the French King.
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Cats do have a conscience: it tells them when to look innocent.
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When a cat comes into your life, resistance is futile.
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Smarting for his outraged ‘rights’, Cain lost his reason — but not God’s pity and love.
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The King who condemned him to the den of lions felt far worse about it than Daniel did.
Prince Belshazzar’s disrespectful behaviour left him facing the original ‘writing on the wall’.