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The devil a puritan that he is, or anything constantly but a time-pleaser; an affectioned ass.

[He] curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever.

All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.

William Shakespeare

Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down.

Neither maid, widow, nor wife.

It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!

I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

...of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy.

The man was disconcerting and, when I spoke again, it annoyed me to hear that my tone sounded apologetic.

All of us are too much concerned with this life," she remarked; she spoke as if what she were saying was an obvious fact instead of a philosophic platitude. "It is time that a man like Julian

Which of the horses we passed yesterday whinnied all night in my dreams? I want that one.

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

or in the case of half-stroke cycles like the Kondratieff wave, half a human life).

We cannot possibly permit it, either as Communists or internationalists, or as the Soviet state. We would have capitalists on the frontier of the Soviet Union.

Sir, if Tang can't avoid the Mexican fishing fleet," O'Kane replied, "she doesn't have any business going on patrol.