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I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
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Ladies and Gentlemen, we're about to begin boarding. If we could ask for your cooperation, please stay seated until you row has… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in… — Eric Massa Copy Share Image
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I was raised by my mom. She taught me how to be a gentleman; nobody in the movies taught me. I think… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
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Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon… — Hafez Copy Share Image
You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
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Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
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[writing to Stirling in 1740] ... an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
The confrontation was not created by the police. The confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, get the… — Richard J. Daley Copy Share Image
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