Tenuta San Carlo - Historic working ranch and farm with rental apartments, close to the sea and the Maremma Natural Park. Pictures and online booking.
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-- H. L. Mencken Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
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-- Abraham Lincoln I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
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When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
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Robert Frost (1874-1963) Marina di Grosseto I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
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What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
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- George Bernard Shaw Marina di Grosseto
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
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"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
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-- H. L. Mencken NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
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