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Mama read it an began pulling her hair an weepin an praisin the Lord, 'cause it say I am 'Temporarily Deferred' on account of I am a numbnuts.

Sure, Gump," he say. "What the hell—we will even get him accommodations in first class.

This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.

This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice

But you ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

was that the possibility of Singapore having no landward defences no more entered into my mind than that of a battleship being launched without a bottom.

I saw quite plainly that Communism would be the peril civilisation would have to face after the defeat of Nazism and Fascism.

I never had any doubts about it, for I saw quite plainly that Communism would be the peril civilisation would have to face after the defeat of Nazism and Fascism.

Enmities which are unspoken and hidden are more to be feared than those which are outspoken and open.' —CICERO.

there followed a period lasting for about three months of Turkish hesitation and delay, having the effect of consummate duplicity

I must say I am a little impatient about the American scepticism. The event is what will decide all.

The destiny of mighty peoples,' said Trotsky, 'cannot be determined by the temporary condition of their technical apparatus.

Foreign Minister cited the Baltic States, in which to-day, one year after the occupation by the Russians, the entire intelligentsia had been wiped out and really terrible conditions prevailed.

He cherished the illusion of power and consequence when the reality had gone.

Hitler has told us that it was a crime in such circumstances on our part to go to the aid of the Greeks. I do not wish to enter into argument with experts.

collective ideologists (those professional intellectuals who revel in decimals and polysyllables).

What a relief to be confronted by an Earl Marshal instead of an Air Marshal.

I have heard of wars for the defence of the Protestant religion: our enemies in this instance are equally enemies of all religion—of Lutheranism, of Calvinism; and desirous to propagate everywhere, by the force of their arms, that system of infidelity which they avow in their principles. I

I am told that a Boston lunch party is greatly to be preferred to a Boston Tea Party.

for a moment both the table and Roly-Poly go into a frenzy . . . what is it? It was the cat. She pulled it out from under the table, a mouse in its jaws.

and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.

the French are such assess, they are truly inept, for they have to go abroad for help.