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  • Margot Asquith He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Amy Hempel He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
    Rick Moody (2007) 391
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Anthony Holden He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • John Lennon He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • John Buchan He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
    John Buchan
    Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist (1875 - 1940)
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  • Mark Twain He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Victor Hugo He does not weep who does not see.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Bobby Bowden He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • James Graham He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
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  • Henry Wotton He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died.
    Henry Wotton
    English diplomat, politician and writer (1568 - 1639)
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  • Jack Nicklaus He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Charles II He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
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  • Charles Dickens He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ada Leverson He had no special hobbies, but he needed luxury in general of a kind, and especially the luxury of getting things in a hurry, his theory being that everything comes to the man who won't wait.
    Tenterhooks (1912) Ch. vii
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Booth Tarkington He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • John Aubrey He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
    John Aubrey
    English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer (1626 - 1697)
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  • Oscar Wilde He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Charles Lamb He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Anwar Sadat He has lived for peace, but he died for his principles.
    Anwar Sadat
    Egyptian politician (1918 - 1981)
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