P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.
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My friendships are very important to me.
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Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
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When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
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What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.
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'Well now,' he said, 'was I as good as you were when you were me?'
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Turbulence is the beginning of a fruitful process of transformation.
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To waft a feather or to drown a fly.
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If I loved you, well that's my fault
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.
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I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.
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In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.
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Arthur had heard Peggy say that she didn’t wish for more comfortable furniture, because if the chairs were softer, company would be inclined to stay longer.
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Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.
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This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime
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While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.
