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Once at a dinner party when he was a young man, Winston Churchill, who at the time had a moustache, was seated next to an older woman.
She said to him, "Young man, I care neither for your politics no...
Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease".
Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace...
Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her. -- Vanbrugh
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (65-8 B.C.)...
once can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them.
If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight....
Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased.
He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he...
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
-- Montaigne...
Once, during a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage, the judge asked, "Miss West, are you trying to show contempt for this court?
She answered, "On the contrary, your Honor, I wa...
Once economists were asked, "if you're so smart, why ain't you rich?
Today they're asked, "Now that you've proved you ain't so smart, how come you got rich?...

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