Just picked this book up in a second-hand bookshop the other day. It's a series of gnomic short poems. I liked what I saw. I suspect I may be sharing a few here. Here's one I liked today.
Losing one glove
is certainly painful,
but nothing
compared to the pain
of losing one,
throwing away the other,
and finding
the first one again.
-Piet Hein
Amazon.co.uk: Grooks: Piet Hein: Books
"Spend and tax" not "tax and spend"
I got a response from my MP which got me kind of mad. You'll see why as I reproduce it here. Apologies for the strange changes in types...
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"'Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I tell yo...
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I'm not sure people have believed me when I've said that there have been discovered uncaffeinated coffee beans. Well, here's one...
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