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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I…
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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to…
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I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.
— Sara Blakely
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Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.
— James Buchan
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I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not…
— Katharine Whitehorn
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All a woman needs to be chic is a raincoat, two suits, a pair of trousers and a cashmere sweater
— Hubert de Givenchy
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A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Women say hello and then put their hands down my trousers. I thought it was my hand they were supposed to shake.
— Simon Cowell
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Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers
— Stephen Fry
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When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing…
— Arsene Wenger
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All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a…
— Billy Connolly
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Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
— Clive James
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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
— Austin O'Malley
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Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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