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"Only laughter can blow to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

"So soon as Squire Cass's standing dishes diminished in plenty and freshness, his guests had nothing to do but to walk a little higher up the village to Mr. Osgood's, at the Orchards, and they found ha…"

"Suddenly she laughed again. It was a shriek, a mad laugh like the clatter of dishes and it was over as quickly as it began. I looked at her feet again. I could feel something inside her retreating. I …"

"The Egyptians won't forget those who stood with them, or against them."

"If the US is the country that most contributes with greenhouse gases, in the world, it should assume more responsibility to reduce emissions."

"The Man With the Blue Guitar"

"Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I…"

"If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt."

"Please rise to the president of the south, and all hail to the chief with them diamond teeth in his mouth"

"Having Plan B is good. But if your obsessed with Plan A, u'll never need backup. Become Obsessed with ur goals, ur focus will bring results."

"It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage."

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"the UK will stand shoulder to shoulder with the EU and with Nato to face these threats together"

"One of the paradoxes of India is its astonishing linguistic diversity compared with its cultural unity."

"If the nation only knew their hands dripped with innocent blood, it would have met them not with applause but with stones."

"What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves!"

"At eighteen you sleep without memories."

"If a woman marries without the consent of her guardian, her marriage is null and void...; then, if her marriage hath been consummated, the woman shall take her dower; if her guardians dispute about he…"

"isn't a Nintendo game… There's no hitting reset and coming back to life. If you turn your head around the corner in the streets of Baghdad and take one between the eyes, your brain is gone. Maybe you …"

"Don't liken me to that . Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain fool."