Will Cuppy - Thought Quotes

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Charlemagne's strong point was morals. He was so moral that some people thought he was only fooling. These people came to no good.

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As Catherine learned later that night [her wedding night], Russia makes strange bedfellows. Peter got into bed with his boots on, played with his collection of dolls for an hour or so, and told the Grand Duchess about his new mistresses. He had no mistresses, really, but he thought he had. It was all in his head.

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She was one of the victims of the French Revolution, a thing thought up by some philosophers who wished to make the world a better place to live in. They wanted all the French to be free and equal and happy, and they tried to bring this about by decapitating as many of them as possible.

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They [the Pilgrim Fathers] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.

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Most of the original group [of elephants] succumbed to the climate, and he [Hannibal] was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what he had done with the elephants they sent before. Sometimes, when he hadn't an elephant to his name, he would manage to wangle a few from somewhere, a feat which strikes me as his greatest claim to our attention.

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