A farmer took on firewood by tramping over mountains and through ravines every day, In order to get a day‘s rations and let his son goes to school with the remaining money....

'How do you account for your remarkable accomplishment in life?' Queen Victoria of England asked Helen Keller. 'How do you explain the fact that even though you were both blind and...

If you put a buzzard in a pen six to eight feet square and entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a bu...

  A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street， going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked...

He walked into the city engrossed in his own thoughts. The eyes seemed totravel the kingdom of unknown. On his forehead, the curly locks trembled withthe cool breeze striking again...

The first day of school our professor introduced a little old lady to us.   'Why are you in college at such a young age?' I asked later. She jokingly replied, 'I‘m here to me...

  In the Warring States Period, there was a man in the State of Wei called Geng Lei. One day he said to the king，“I can shoot down birds by simply plucking my bowstring.‘ W...

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But one night he working late at the Scanlon-Taylor mill, lugging two-by-fours to the truck, 1splinters slicing all the way through the glove. He too small for that kind a work, to...

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