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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance...
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
-- G.B. Shaw...
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
-- James Agate, British film and drama critic...
The entire work force of the Communist countries is sunjected to periodic purges (called verifications in Newspeak).
One of the most severe took place in 1957 when Novotny, rattled by the Hungarian R...
The ERA] encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
-- Pat Robertson, Man of God and serious Republican preside...
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.
-- Lyman Bryso...
The eternal feminine draws us upward. -- Goethe
The executioner is, I hear, very expert, and my neck is very slender. -- Anne Boley
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be correct.
-- William of Occam...
The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
... Fuss, the god of the Southe...

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