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Devon Links

	Eggesford Online - Information guide to the parish of Eggesford.
	Cheriton Fitzpaine - Site is for local residents and visitors to Cheriton Fitzpaine, containing information on the numerous organisations and events taking place in Cheriton Fitzpaine.
	The Village of Petrockstowe - Information, pictures and history on the village of Petrockstowe with details of accommodation and the local Inn with other local links.
	Devon Online - Devon internet magazine featuring accommodation, activities, town guides, and tourist information.
	Halberton - Halberton is a large rural parish in the County of Devon, near to the town of Tiverton, and including the hamlets of Ash Thomas and Brithem Bottom.
	Tarka-Country.co.uk - Two searchable directories, one for commercial, agricultural and tourism related businesses, the other for accommodation.
	Mid Devon Carnival Circuit - Guide to carnivals with float pictures, news, dates from Tiverton and Crediton carnivals; also links to many other carnival sites.
	North Devon UK - A compilation of Web links concerning North Devon. If you want to know anything about North Devon then you should find it in the hundreds of links on this site.
	DevonWebPages - Portal Site for Devon with 1000's of websites arranged by town, village and classification.
	Hatherleigh - For visitors to and residents of Hatherleigh, containing information on the history, clubs and organisations and events in this traditional market town.
	Greencountry - Rural business directory for the West Country.
	Coldridge - In the heart of Devon, 10 miles from Crediton, next to the river Taw and Tarka Trail.
	Bigbury on Sea - Situated in Bigbury Bay on the South Devon Coast in the heart of an area of outstanding natural beauty, close to Burgh Island.
	North Devon Marketing Bureau - News for and about North Devon, including tourism, and business.
	Tarka Foundation - Public services directory for the Tarka Country area. They have acquired funding through The Development Fund for Rural Renewal to offer small businesses assistance throughout the area.
	Lydford - The Dartmoor village of national historical importance.
	Devon Heritage - Historical information about the county and the surrounding areas.
	Public Rights of Way in Devon - Information on Public Rights of Way across Devon.
	Torbay - In Business - Directory of local businesses in the area.

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I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Devon When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril Devon "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise Devon If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Devon The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller Devon The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain Devon Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Devon Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon Devon "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." 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