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I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough Others may stumble, but not you On hiccough, thorough, laugh, and through. And cork and work and card and ward And font and front and word and sword Well done! And now if you wish, perhaps To learn of less familiar traps, Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead– For goodness sakes don’t call it deed. Watch out for meat and great and threat, They rhyme with suite and straight and debt. A moth is not a moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth in brother. And here is not a match for there, And dear and fear for bear and pear. And then there’s dose and rose and lose– Just look them up–and goose and choose, And do and go, then thwart and cart. Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start! A dreadful language? Man alive! I’d mastered it when I was five.

T.S.Watt (1954)

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Technically a Google Maps fail, but "Battersea Power" would be a much better (and less confusing) name for the new "Battersea Power Station" station. #battersea #batterseapower #batterseapowerstation #tube #tubemap #map #googlemaps #googlemapsfail #londonunderground (at Battersea Power Station) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVYK8HRsZFP/?utm_medium=tumblr

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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)

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Me via an infrared camera. . . . #infrared #selfie #forscience #science #colourful #heat (at California Science Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ItH8vnjCr/?igshid=18wrjigmo98y9

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Definite article?! #the #francis (at St Pancras, London) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxyF-nKn-Cj/?igshid=mjtybcnj2cuy

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All in a monring's work. #tottenhamlock #canal #lock #canallock #boatlife (at Tottenham Lock) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwT6uOAA3yB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3yvxf1w3bwvj

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A gallon of Tabasco. 😋 How many bloody marys could that make? (At least three or four the way I like them 🔥) . . . #tabasco #tabascosauce (at Plaquemine Lock) https://www.instagram.com/p/BujCLBrgIkd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5ilyolt8k4nr

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The real man’s scrotum shaver Found in my favourite barbers: Rocket Hackney . . . #shave #unshaved #barber #barbershop #man #saw #realman #rocketbarber #hackney (at Rocket Barber Shop) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt1SvYDgDmL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14ihkhxtpmnq7

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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831

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About to attempt the Hatton flight. Breakfast at the top lock cafe first though. . . . #hatton #locks #canal #narrowboat #morning #brightandearly #canalboat (at Hatton Locks) https://www.instagram.com/p/Brca1qMAhxF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hzcz0c9919oj

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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.

Milton Friedman

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#Brunel's SS Great Britain #Bristol (at Brunel's SS Great Britain)

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“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

Winston Churchill, 30 November 1874 — 24 January 1965

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain (30 November 1835 — 21 April 1910)

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Art deco in the 'Dam #artdeco #amsterdam (at Amsterdam - Netherlands)

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Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.

John Perry Barlow (October 3, 1947 – February 7, 2018)

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell May 18, 1872 — February 2, 1970