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I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

Thank you, Father," Sir Lancelot replied gratefully. "But ... er ... Father?" "Yes, Lancelot?" "You didn't say anything about my armor. Is it not shiny enough?

Modesty is not a bad habit, after all,' the priest commented. 'Alhough humility would be better.

and stared at the bulkhead over the head of the captain. "Sir," he said again, "I would like to request permission to stay on as crew for the Bostonia.

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.

Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.

Never let me hear that foolish word again.

Apparently, he was not the sharpest quill on the porcupine, if you get my drift.

I just thought you might like to know that I passed a kennel on the way to the game and your mother is all right.

Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command, His first command is this - "Man, love thyself."

This bond is forfeit; And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.

An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men - the rest love not freedom, but licence.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

Joy is the most infallible sign of the Presence of God.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.