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"Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her."
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"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."
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"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."
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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie."
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"My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
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"The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for."
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"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
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"If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high."
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"In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school."
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"Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life."
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"The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind."
Time


"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again."
Experience


"The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection."
People


"It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea."
Man


"Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms."
Man


"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms."
Poetry


"I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen."
Writing


"What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?"
Family


"A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam."
Travel
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