[…] the chief purpose of our armed forces would be not to win wars but to avert wars, our leaders would be talking to us in peacespeak, not nukespeak, […]

Conceiving that he had some solid reason for his refusal, which he could not with propriety disclose in presence of Omar Effendi, I did not urge him to accompany me; but laying aside my white burnous, which I had hitherto worn after the fashion of Cairo, put on a black abba of the Capo Verde which was brought me by as black a Hercules, of whom the interpreter remarked that there was only one person in Jerusalem, and that too a fellow-servant, who was piu diavolo che lui, more devil than he.

The pudgy child had a difficult time running the mile.

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