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I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
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 (1707 - 1754), "Jonathan Wild"
To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.: Kelvin Throop
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.: E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic
The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.: W.L. George
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.: Philip Guedalla (1889 - 1944)
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)

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