Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

S. Coley

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S. Coley

T is hard to say what is really little; many things which appear so turn out to be possessed of an importance beyond our foresight, and run…

S. Coley (T Way of Success)

HE men whom I have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a smile on their…

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