"Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out……" — John Aubrey

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• Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is… — Heinrich Himmler
• When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling… — Virginia Woolf
• What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments… — William James
• So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and… — John Milton
• Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's… — John Milton
• However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul. — William Wordsworth
• Box about: 'twill come to my father anon. — John Aubrey
• Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And… — Geoffrey Chaucer
• I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon. — Paula Poundstone
• .... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what… — Henry David Thoreau

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