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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson 't Is not too late to seek a newer world.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Voltaire 'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bobby Flay 'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg 'The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Saki 'The man is a common murderer'.
    'A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook'.
    Saki
    British writer, pen name of Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916)
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  • André Gide 'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes 'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • George Eliot 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Addison 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • A. Sidney 'Tis not necessary to light a candle to the sun.
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  • Ezra Pound 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • John Selden 'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • J. Seldon 'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.
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  • W. M. Thackeray 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Robert Browning 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • William Congreve 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Euripides 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Carine Roitfeld 'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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