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  • Lord George Byron I have always laid it down as a maxim - and found it justified by experience - that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex - but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • William Blake I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Ruskin I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Adam Grant I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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  • A. Philip Randolph I have waited twenty-two years for this... I've waited all my life for this opportunity.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Themistocles I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
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  • William Jennings Bryan I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Ulysses S. Grant I know only two tunes. One them is ''Yankee Doodle'' and the other isn't.
    Ulysses S. Grant
    American Army general (1822 - 1885)
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  • Lord George Byron I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bryan Adams I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • James Thurber I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Alice James I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Robert Burton I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I met my darling wife Wilnelia in 1980 when we were on the judging panel for the Miss World contest at the Royal Albert Hall. With two ex-wives and five daughters, I thought I wouldn't be involved with anyone for a long time - if ever. Winnie was so gorgeous, my jaw dropped - and it's a big jaw to drop.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Charles Dickens I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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