Caerwent - Roman City - Now a village, once a roman city - the capital of the Silures tribe.
Caerleon - Caerleon - once one of the three Roman Legionary fortresses in Britain, linked with King Arthur, rich in history and legend. This site covers the past, present and future of the village.
The Mynde, Caerleon - Information about an area known as the Mynde. Find out why John Jenkins walled himself in; discover Caerleon Castle and the ruins of a Roman bath house. Birthplace of Charles Williams.
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-- James Thurber And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
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It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
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-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
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An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
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Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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-- Will Rogers One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
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May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
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-- Colin Powell Politics have no relation to morals.
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If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
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-- Mark Twain "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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-- Albert Einstein, attributed Travel and Tourism When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
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- Arthur Schopenhauer If we don't change the direction we are going,
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-- Chinese saying Travel and Tourism
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
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-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Travel and Tourism
