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The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint… — T.H. White
For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting. — Jacques de Molay
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat… — Wilfred Burchett
Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and youâ€™re sort… — Steven Moffat
The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through,… — James Salter
It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on oneâ€™s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to… — Judith Martin
I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map. — Melissa Bank
Everything can be temporary, except us. — Kathryn Grayson
In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas… — Paul Scott
It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending… — Robert Higgs
I have never been contained except I made the prison. — Mari Evans
Who are the militia, if they be not the people of this country...? I ask, who are the militia? They consist of now of the… — George Mason
Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who… — Graham Taylor
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes. — Charley Reese
I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back… — Richard Pryor
Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose),… — Moses Mendelssohn
Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died. — Junipero Serra
No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not. — Publilius Syrus
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. — Edward Thomas
I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt… — Khalil Gibran

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