National Showcaves Centre for Wales - Located at Dan-yr-Ogof farm, north of Abercraf on the A4067. Includes details of the caves, farm, Iron Age village, and facilities.
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-- Anonymous My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Attractions
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-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
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-- D. H. Lawrence Attractions "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Attractions
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
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-- Isadora Duncan "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
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-- H.L. Mencken To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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-- George Santayana Attractions
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
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-- James Thurber When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Attractions
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Where there is love there is life.
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-- Euripides Attractions
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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-- WARREN BEATTY Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Attractions I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
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-- Anonymous Attractions
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
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-- Anonymous Attractions Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Attractions
