Commonplace Book

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At the 13th-century manor house of Donnington le Heath, the kitchen table is set for cooking dinner.[/caption]

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‘Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.’
— Sir Walter Scott

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‘There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake or a fond eye.’
— Lord Acton

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‘True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.’
— Shakespeare, Richard III

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‘Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that blooms today Tomorrow will be dying.’
— Robert Herrick