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It was a friar of orders grayWalked forth to tell his beads.

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Roland is valorous and Oliver is wise.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!

Luke, the beloved physician.

Shatner commas: Oddly placed commas that don't seem to serve any actual purpose in punctuation, but make it look like you should take odd pauses, as William Shatner does when delivering lines.

Physicians and politicians resemble one another in this respect, that some defend the constitution and others destroy it.

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman.

The king sits in Dunfermline townDrinking the blude-red wine.

"My face is my fortune, sir," she said.

A frog he would a-wooing go.Sing heigh-ho says Rowley.

Let the woman into Paradise, she'll bring her cow along.

A-roving, a-roving,Since roving's been my ru-i-in,I'll go no more a-rovingWith you, fair maid!

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

The Selchester police station was like every other in England – square and imposing on the outside, shabby and institutional on the inside.

Yes, anarchy is order, government is civil war.

Among the extremely diverse books lumped together as 'mysteries,' I shall try to judge each fairly according to the best standards of the type which the author intended to produce.

James Hilton, who had himself endured an almost equally amazing mass enthusiasm, referred in a radio talk to Mr. Winton's admirable "Threenody." This sent thousands scurrying to the Oxford English Dictionary, and set other thousands writing indignantly to their pet radio editors. Fifty-three per cent of these managed an indirect reference to England's war debt.

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.

narrated a finely honed script that spoke of the key moments in our beloved tale. This was Star Wars – In Concert.

I prefer my saints to live in caves and not to try to impose their standards on the world: for single-mindedness is a cold virtue.

The important religious distinction is not between those who worship and those who do not worship but between those who love and those who don't.

And there's not a single evil in the world that you cannot trace to fear. Not one.