The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

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• James Theodore Bent:

  Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing str

• James Theodore Bent:

  In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

• James Theodore Bent:

  In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.

• Paul Verlaine:

  I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

• Paul Verlaine:

  Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

• Paul Verlaine:

  The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

• Anna Sewell:

  I am never afraid of what I know.

• Anna Sewell:

  My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing

• Anna Sewell:

  There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, b

• Anna Sewell:

  Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it