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Castor and
«Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
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Advice
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Castor, Castor and, castor oil, dreadful, oil, uneasy
«And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.»
«BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Aetna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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