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He jests at scars who never felt a wound. -- Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet, II. 2
He keeps differentiating, flying off on a tangent.
He knew the tavernes well in every toun. -- Geoffrey Chauce
He knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow. -- Sir Richard Burto
He laughs at every joke three times... once when it's told, once when it's explained, and once when he understands it.
He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered. -- Ring Lardne
He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. -- Andrew Lang
He only knew his iron spine held up the sky -- he didn't realize his brain had fallen to the ground.
-- The Book of Serenity...
He opens a tolm and begins.) It says: "In the beginning was the Word.
Already I am stopped. It seems absurd. The Word does not deserve the highest prize, I must translate it otherwise....
He] played the King as if afraid someone else might play the ace.
-- Unattributed review of a performance of King Lear....

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