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"A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away."
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"I've got a great place, it's a country house."
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"We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it."
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"Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs."
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"Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country."
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"We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!"
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"But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world."
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"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
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"He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?"
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"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."
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"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
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"Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate."
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"Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close."
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"Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one."
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"I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for."
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"Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see."
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"Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men."
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"A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away."
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