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The Mule
«My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating -- and he knows when to stop working.»
«A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.»
«And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.»
«And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.»
«It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an unhappy cross breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
breed, conservatism, engender, Engendered, engenders, mule, The Mule
«OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy. The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
advocacy, exponent, exponents, mule, splendor, The Mule, The Popular
«GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust --to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones or mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.»
«I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
bites, diarrhea, have got, Mosquitoes, mule, pleasuring, Portuguese, rides, swears, swims, Tagus, The Mule