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"Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having."
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"A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere."
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"Bad weather always looks worse through a window."
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"What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it."
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"A crack of lightning, an explosion of thunder, the sound of pounding rain."
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"Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore."
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"I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather."
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"The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market."
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"The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather."
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"Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!"
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"It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city."
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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
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"Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
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"Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul."
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"Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions."
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"Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
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"Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy."
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"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."
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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
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