Casa das Obras - This 18th-century manor house at Manteigas in the mountains of the Serra da Estrela is offered as a holiday home. Photographs and description in English and Portuguese. Accommodation, area, reservations.
D'Aguiar - A inn in the old Convent of Santa Maria de Aguiar, a building complex from the 13th century, situated in the area of Castelo Rodrigo.
Casa do Ribeiro - A holiday cottage located on the bank of the river Alva in the nature park of the Serra da Estrela. Photographs and details.
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-- Aesop There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
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-- B.F. Skinner If we don't change the direction we are going,
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-- Chinese saying I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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-- Hunter S. Thompson Guarda
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
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-- Bertrand Russell Guarda
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The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
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-- John Heywood Guarda
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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be doing if he were alive today?
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-- Calvin Trillin There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
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-- Albert Einstein Guarda I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Guarda
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
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-- Laurence J. Peter Guarda
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
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We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
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cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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