Language

We don't have the right to ask when sorrow comes: Why did this happen to me?, unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.

Chockie bikkies = Chocolate biscuits

Archaic word

imp = repair; to strengthen; equip

Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Lindabrides = A heroine in The Mirror of Knighthood, whose name at one time was a synonym for a kept mistress, in which sense it was used by Scott, Kenilworth and Woodstock.

Difficult words

outré - a. unconventional; exaggerated.

Limerick

A whore working down in Montgomery Said, "Preachers bore me with their mummery. Once given the chance, They are into your pants, And forget all their sanctified flummery."

Knowledge

Malebranche, Nicholasa French metaphysician, born in Paris; determined to embrace a monastic life, entered the congregation of the Oratory at the age of 22, and devoted himself to theological study, till the treatise of Descartes on "Man" falling into his hands, he gave himself up to philosophy; his famous work "De la Recherche de la Vérité" was published in 1673, the main object of which was to bridge over the gulf which separates mind from matter by the establishment of the thesis that the mind immediately perceives God, and sees all things in God, who in Himself includes the presumed irreconcilable antithesis (1638-1715).

Quote

Nature by Socrates - See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Tongue twister

black back bat

Unusual word

paroxysm = fit of passion; laughter; coughing; sudden violent action