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"Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns."
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"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."
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"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."
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"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."
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"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."
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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."
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"Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around."
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"The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference."
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"Without game, men prey on each other."
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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
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"For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King."
Man
"Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns."
Men
"The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game."
Time
"The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man."
Time
"If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him."
Anger
"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."
Chess
"The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces."
Queen
"If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty."
Correction
"A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces."
May
"Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other."
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