Old friends. They finish your sentences, they remember the cat that ran away when you were twelve, and they tell you the truth when you‘ve had a bad haircut. But mostly, t...

'How do you account for your remarkable accomplishment in life?' Queen Victoria of England asked Helen Keller. 'How do you explain the fact that even though you were both blind and...

  Once there was a very rich man. He lived in a beautiful house, and had a beautiful garden. The rich man had a blue beard: so he was called  “Blue Beard”. Near the ri...

  A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. 一个男人和他的女朋友结婚，举行了一场盛大的结婚庆典。 All of their friends and family came to see t...

There are five peas in a bean pod. When they are mature, a small boy picks it and opens it. The small boy puts the first one into an air gun. 'Ping' …the pea is shot out. It say...

If I find a dog, I will take it to its owner. Because the owner must be worried about the dog. When I was a child, I had a dog named “Bingo”. I loved it so much, and I always pro...

Once upon a time, there was a boy called Narcissus. He was the son of a god and he was very, very handsome. Many women fell in love with him, but he turned them away. One of the wo...

    Never ever had he been so thirsty for a look at the world outside the window like now. The disease befell so furiously that he could not be spared and was arranged ...

A frail old man went to live with his son, daughterinlaw, and a fouryear old grandson. The old man‘s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The fam...

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