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  • Abraham Cowley Here tears and sighs speak his imperfect moan, In language far more moving than his own.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Anthony Weiner Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Here's a more controversial idea: In general, Democrats and progressives ought to allow Trump considerable room to choose his own employees - far more room than Republicans allowed during the Obama administration. Tit-for-tat is a dangerous game.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Sean O'Casey Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Evelyn Waugh His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Henry Fielding His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Bridget Riley His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • John Marquand His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
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  • Anthony Hope His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • A. E. Housman His folly has not fellow
    Beneath the blue of day
    That gives to man or woman
    His heart and soul away.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 14, st. 3
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Sir William Watson His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes - cats - I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate.
    Sir William Watson
    English poet (1858 - 1935)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anne Bronte His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Alexander Woollcott His huff arrived and he departed in it.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Abba Eban His ignorance is encyclopedic.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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