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• “The website appears in three languages: the Icelandic version possibly has the aptest title of the three − Sögueyjan Ísland literally "Iceland, the Saga Island", though "Sögueyjan" could also be translated as "The Island of Fables", or "The Island of History", while the German and English titles seem to owe more to the stylistic conventions of the tourist brochure: Sagenhaftes Island, and Fabulous Iceland.”

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• “Cheer leader" is the aptest term I've heard so far.”

  Palin won. It's over. I've had it. I'm giving up. Where's my melamine milkshake?

• “Lincoln's definition is the aptest we can think of, govern- ment of the people, by the people, for the people.”

  In the olden times people fought to satisfy national greed and dynastic ambition

• “Then he seated them upon chairs, adorned with gold after the usage of Wazirs, and appointed to them stipends and allowances, bidding them choose out such of the notables of the kingdom and officers of the troops present at the banquet as were aptest for the service of the state, that he might make them”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “THE right of nature, which writers commonly call jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life; and consequently, of doing anything which, in his own judgement and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto.”

  Leviathan

• “Moreover, since books are the aptest teachers, as the previous chapter assumes, it is fitting to bestow on them the honour and the affection that we owe to our teachers.”

  The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury

• “Nor less in matters of war, in the use of the bow and the javelin, was he held by men in general to be at once the aptest of learners and the most eager practiser.”

  Anabasis

• “This is that which, I imagine, is that notion which men are aptest to have of God; who would have him a material being, as most readily suggested to them by the ordinary conceit they have of themselves and other men, which they take to be material thinking beings.”

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

• “And of fleshes, those of the goat, the stag, the sow, and the dog: for these are the kinds of flesh which are aptest to disorder the bowels.”

  On The Sacred Disease

• “Of all kinds of country that could, by possibility, lie outside the gates of Rome, this is the aptest and fittest burial-ground for the Dead City.”

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