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• I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.
  -- William F. Buckley, Jr....
• Any vacuum cleaner would sooner take the nap off a rug than remove white threads from a dark rug.
• You can't kiss a girl unexpectedly--only sooner than she thought you would.
• Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so. RUSSELL
• QUICKIE -- no sooner spread than done.
• I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity.
  Moral people, as they are termed, are simply beasts....
• They told me it would disrupt my life less if I got killed sooner. -- Joseph Helle
• Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act i, Sc.
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