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That mythical island, whose inhabitants earned a precarious living by taking in each other's washing.
-- Lewis Carroll...
That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act i, Sc. 1...
That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act i, Sc. 5...
That no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King John -- Act iii, Sc. 1...
That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to truth, and moraliz'd his song.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 340...
That old bald cheater, Time. -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- The Poetaster, Act i, Sc. 1
That old man eloquent. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- To the Lady Margaret Ley
That one tile you need to win at Shanghai is destined to be on the bottom.
That only with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
That parrot is definitely deceased.

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