P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
He then gave a hideous laugh and added that, if anybody was interested in his plans, he was going to join the Foreign Legion, that cohort of the damned in which broken men may toil and die and dying, forget. ‘Beau Widgeon?’ said the Egg, impressed. ‘What ho!’
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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Great men marry great women.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
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The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
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Hardcore fans have a vision in their head, and if they look at your cosplay of it, you may not fit their vision.
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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.
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The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about allegations of war crimes. Those are the kind of thing that lead to a great deal of fear and uncertainty.
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The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
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Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
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He then gave a hideous laugh and added that, if anybody was interested in his plans, he was going to join the Foreign Legion, that cohort of the damned in which broken men may toil and die and dying, forget. ‘Beau Widgeon?’ said the Egg, impressed. ‘What ho!’
