Museum of the Welsh Woollen Industry - A brief summary of the museum, which is located in Llandysul. Includes contact details and an overview of the museum's collection.
Carmarthenshire Family History Society - Offers a service where members will look up records, also provides information about the society and the L-roots mailing list.
Ty Ni Family Centre Resourses - A charitable run organisation, based on helping children and parents improve their skills, these include early learning, homework skills, donation to the organisation. including links to online reading sites
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Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
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-- Woodrow Wilson Society and Culture
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
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between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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work and the I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
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I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
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