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"Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together—that's what makes us who we are."

— David Gemmell

Journalism1948–2006

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"I is here with the geezer who was the Secretary-General of the United Nations. His name be none other than my man, Boutros Boutros Boutros-Ghali."

— Sacha Baron Cohen

Entertainment1971

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"It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine."

— P. G. Wodehouse

Religion1881–1975

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"For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world — not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, but the important things — work out rather beautiful…"

— J. D. Salinger

fiction1919–2010

#life