Boston Quote by Oliver Herford

“When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.”

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Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

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Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.

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To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

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Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

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An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.

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A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

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True love; an old fashioned sentiment.

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Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in…

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Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

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“At evening when the lamp is lit, The tired Human People sit And doze, or turn with solemn looks The speckled pages of their books. Then I, the Dangerous Kitten, prowl And in the Shadows softly growl, And roam about the farthest floor Where Kitten never trod before. And, crouching in the jungle damp, I watch the Human Hunter’s camp,…

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From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts…

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I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them.…

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I love cooking but I still always go and sneak a little bit of sides from Boston Market, and it's so good. They're so…

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Boston is one of my favorite places to wrestle.

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I ain't got no problem in Boston, I especially like the attention. I know that I'm one of the top guys in this game and all the attention is on me, I got a lot of people on my shoulder but I'm human. I like to go. I like to have fun. I like to do this and that but…

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I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played,…

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2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red…

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It was when Boston invited us to do a parade one November, and I was the only [Star Wars] cast member skeptical of the…

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Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe…

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