Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Norman Tebbit He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
    Norman Tebbit
    British politician (1931 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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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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  • Fred A. Allen He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Douglas Adams He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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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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  • Thomas B. Macaulay He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Jonathan Swift He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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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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  • 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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  • Winston Churchill He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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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 half the deed done who has made a beginning
    Horace
    Roman poet
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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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  • Lord Arthur Balfour He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Margaret Halsey He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Horace He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Alan K. Simpson He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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