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Men Quotes by A. P. Herbert
- Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be…
- An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
- aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the…
- My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me.…
- The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
- Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking…
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