#-------------------------------------------------------------- # Sacred Emily, Gertrude Stein #-------------------------------------------------------------- Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. #-------------------------------------------------------------- # Tongue twisters #-------------------------------------------------------------- Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday. #-------------------------------------------------------------- # Fox in Sox, Dr. Seuss #-------------------------------------------------------------- Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze. #-------------------------------------------------------------- # Chomsky, bastardized for regex texting #-------------------------------------------------------------- Colorless wee-little green ideas sleep and eat furiously for the 1000th time. Colorless Wee-Little Green Ideas Sleep And Eat Furiously For The 1000th Time. COLORLESS WEE-LITTLE GREEN IDEAS SLEEP AND EAT FURIOUSLY FOR THE 1000TH TIME. #-------------------------------------------------------------- # 1984, George Orwell #-------------------------------------------------------------- It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. #-------------------------------------------------------------- # Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen #-------------------------------------------------------------- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. #-------------------------------------------------------------- # Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes #-------------------------------------------------------------- Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing. #-------------------------------------------------------------- # The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe #-------------------------------------------------------------- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door Only this, and nothing more." #-------------------------------------------------------------- # A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens #-------------------------------------------------------------- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. #-------------------------------------------------------------- # "Mary Had a Little Lamb" #-------------------------------------------------------------- Mary had a little lamb, His fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go. He followed her to school one day, Which was against the rule, It made the children laugh and play To see a lamb at school. And so the teacher turned it out, But still it lingered near, And waited patiently about, Till Mary did appear. "Why does the lamb love Mary so?" The eager children cry. "Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know." The teacher did reply. #-------------------------------------------------------------- # Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day, William Shakespeare #-------------------------------------------------------------- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed. But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. #-------------------------------------------------------------- # Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln #-------------------------------------------------------------- Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. #-------------------------------------------------------------- # A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens # One sentence per line. #-------------------------------------------------------------- MARLEY was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. The mention of Marley's funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot--say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance-- literally to astonish his son's weak mind. #-------------------------------------------------------------- # 50 state names as a list # Copy and paste in your Python script/shell #-------------------------------------------------------------- states = ['Alabama','Alaska','Arizona','Arkansas','California','Colorado', 'Connecticut','Delaware','Florida','Georgia','Hawaii','Idaho', 'Illinois','Indiana','Iowa','Kansas','Kentucky','Louisiana', 'Maine','Maryland','Massachusetts','Michigan','Minnesota', 'Mississippi','Missouri','Montana','Nebraska','Nevada', 'New Hampshire','New Jersey','New Mexico','New York', 'North Carolina','North Dakota','Ohio','Oklahoma','Oregon', 'Pennsylvania','Rhode Island','South Carolina','South Dakota', 'Tennessee','Texas','Utah','Vermont','Virginia','Washington', 'West Virginia','Wisconsin','Wyoming'] #-------------------------------------------------------------- # State names and their abbreviation as a dictionary # Copy and paste in your Python script/shell #-------------------------------------------------------------- abbrv = {'Alabama':'al', 'Alaska':'ak', 'Arizona':'az', 'Arkansas':'ar', 'California':'ca', 'Colorado':'co', 'Connecticut':'ct', 'Delaware':'de', 'Florida':'fl', 'Georgia':'ga', 'Hawaii':'hi', 'Idaho':'id', 'Illinois':'il', 'Indiana':'in', 'Iowa':'ia', 'Kansas':'ks', 'Kentucky':'ky', 'Louisiana':'la', 'Maine':'me', 'Maryland':'md', 'Massachusetts':'ma', 'Michigan':'mi', 'Minnesota':'mn', 'Mississippi':'ms', 'Missouri':'mo', 'Montana':'mt', 'Nebraska':'ne', 'Nevada':'nv', 'New Hampshire':'nh', 'New Jersey':'nj', 'New Mexico':'nm', 'New York':'ny', 'North Carolina':'nc', 'North Dakota':'nd', 'Ohio':'oh', 'Oklahoma':'ok', 'Oregon':'or', 'Pennsylvania':'pa', 'Rhode Island':'ri', 'South Carolina':'sc', 'South Dakota':'sd', 'Tennessee':'tn', 'Texas':'tx', 'Utah':'ut', 'Vermont':'vt', 'Virginia':'va', 'Washington':'wa', 'West Virginia':'wv', 'Wisconsin':'wi', 'Wyoming':'wy'} #-------------------------------------------------------------- # State capitals as a dictionary # Copy and paste in your Python script/shell #-------------------------------------------------------------- capital = {'al':'Montgomery', 'ak':'Juneau', 'az':'Phoenix', 'ar':'Little Rock', 'ca':'Sacramento', 'co':'Denver', 'ct':'Hartford', 'de':'Dover', 'fl':'Tallahassee', 'ga':'Atlanta', 'hi':'Honolulu', 'id':'Boise', 'il':'Springfield', 'in':'Indianapolis', 'ia':'Des Moines', 'ks':'Topeka', 'ky':'Frankfort', 'la':'Baton Rouge', 'me':'Augusta', 'md':'Annapolis', 'ma':'Boston', 'mi':'Lansing', 'mn':'St. Paul', 'ms':'Jackson', 'mo':'Jefferson City', 'mt':'Helena', 'ne':'Lincoln', 'nv':'Carson City', 'nh':'Concord', 'nj':'Trenton', 'nm':'Santa Fe', 'ny':'Albany', 'nc':'Raleigh', 'nd':'Bismarck', 'oh':'Columbus', 'ok':'Oklahoma City', 'or':'Salem', 'pa':'Harrisburg', 'ri':'Providence', 'sc':'Columbia', 'sd':'Pierre', 'tn':'Nashville', 'tx':'Austin', 'ut':'Salt Lake City', 'vt':'Montpelier', 'va':'Richmond', 'wa':'Olympia', 'wv':'Charleston', 'wi':'Madison', 'wy':'Cheyenne'} #-------------------------------------------------------------- # State population as a dictionary # Copy and paste in your Python script/shell #-------------------------------------------------------------- popul = {'al':4833722, 'ak':735132, 'az':6626624, 'ar':2959373, 'ca':38332521, 'co':5268367, 'ct':3596080, 'de':925749, 'fl':19552860, 'ga':9992167, 'hi':1404054, 'id':1612136, 'il':12882135, 'in':6570902, 'ia':3090416, 'ks':2893957, 'ky':4395295, 'la':4625470, 'me':1328302, 'md':5928814, 'ma':6692824, 'mi':9895622, 'mn':5420380, 'ms':2991207, 'mo':6021988, 'mt':1015165, 'ne':1868516, 'nv':2790136, 'nh':1323459, 'nj':8899339, 'nm':2085287, 'ny':19651127, 'nc':9848060, 'nd':723393, 'oh':11570808, 'ok':3850568, 'or':3930065, 'pa':12773801, 'ri':1051511, 'sc':4774839, 'sd':844877, 'tn':6495978, 'tx':26448193, 'ut':2900872, 'vt':626630, 'va':8260405, 'wa':6971406, 'wv':1854304, 'wi':5742713, 'wy':582658}