"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban……" — Anthony Trollope

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• Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -… — Matthew Arnold
• Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. — Dave Barry
• I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes. — Manolo Blahnik
• I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't… — Jo Brand
• When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was… — Jo Brand
• Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous… — William S. Burroughs
• State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should… — Noam Chomsky
• In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called… — Noam Chomsky
• The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities. — Julian Clary
• Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for]… — Peter McWilliams
• If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost… — Virginia Woolf
• They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells… — Desiderius Erasmus

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