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• Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext… — Jean Anouilh
• The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the… — Winston Churchill
• Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud… — Steve Sabol
• Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under… — Mark Dvoretsky
• A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the… — Garry Kasparov
• The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships… — Richard Hough
• Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly… — Thomas B. Macaulay
• I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the… — Mark Twain
• But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not… — Jim Butcher
• Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She… — Sarah MacLean
• Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring… — Bob Dylan

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