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The key to successful extramarital sex, therefore, was discretion. Mrs. Patrick Campbell, perhaps the most outspoken woman in polite society, said dryly: "It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom, as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."43"
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It was Churchill who called John Foster Dulles "the only bull who brings his own china shop with him," and who coined the progression, "dull, duller, Dulles."
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oceanography, meteorology, and upper-atmosphere physics,
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Byron wrote his shortest and most eloquent poem as a testament to a titled woman who had taken leave of her husband for a nine-month romp with him: Caroline Lamb, Goddamn.
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Of an MP who strung together phrases of jargon, Churchill said, "He can best be described as one of those orators who, before they get up, do not know what they're going to say; when they are speaking, do not know what they are saying; and when they have sat down, do not know what they have said."
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I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future
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the essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.
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He believed that of all languages English was was incomparably superior. On his tongue it was.
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councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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In the nineteenth century," he observed, "Jules Verne wrote Round the World in Eighty Days. It seemed a prodigy. Now you can get around it in four, but you do not see much of it on the way."
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For all in whose hearts he still lives- a watchman of honor who never sleeps.
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