Quotes with might-have-been

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  • Mark Twain He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Horace He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Aneurin Bevan He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Henry Fielding He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Alice Roosevelt Longworth He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
    About Calvin Coolidge, in the Washington Post (21 oktober 1924)
    Alice Roosevelt Longworth
    American writer and prominent socialite (1884 - 1980)
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  • James Baldwin He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Cole Porter He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.
    Cole Porter
    American composer and songwriter (1891 - 1964)
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  • Oscar Wilde He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Molière He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Anthony Trollope He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Anthony Burgess He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Lord George Byron He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bram Stoker He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
    Dracula (1897) Dr. John Seward
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that can have patience can have what he will.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Whichcote He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say ''when!''
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
    English author and humorists (1881 - 1975)
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