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There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

Fifteen apparitions have I seen;The worst a coat upon a coat-hanger.

You think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attention upon my old age;They were not such a plague when I was young;What else have I to spur me into song?

My wretched dragon is perplexed.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Consequently, as an admonition to all, he named this youngest boy States Rights Gist.

It's the anarchy of povertydelights me.

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

He adored his girls, but he's French, so he's, you know, women are there to be dressed and fed and fucked.

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He is a thinker,' wrote Jacquemont in his memoir, 'who finds nothing but solitude in that exchange of words without ideas which is dignified by the name of conversation in the society of this land.

He also used to oblige them to wear long leather drawers, filled with live cats.

Calcutta,' wrote Clive a few years later, 'is one of the most wicked places in the Universe … Rapacious and Luxurious beyond conception.

Travels in the Mogul Empire and Manucci's Mogul India.

It seemed impossible to imagine that a single London corporation, however ruthless and aggressive, could have conquered a Mughal

for the first time a writer grappled, for example, with the question of how to deal with a multinational whose tentacles extended well beyond

Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature.

The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

When in time of peace only one man can save us, we're hardly worth saving.

For my sins I recently went on a fact-finding tour of the North East...They're no longer whineing and snivelling about social justice and the right to work. They've given up completely.

Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defileThe cause, or the men, of the Emerald Isle.

O reverend Chaucere, rose of rethoris all,As in oure tong ane flour imperiall, That raise in Britane evir, quho redis rycht,Thou beris of makaris the triumph riall.