#except

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin. ↗

— Thomas Campbell

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Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule. ↗

— Richard Curtis

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I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much. ↗

— Mike Ditka

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Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief. ↗

— Gene Fowler

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I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

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I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians. ↗

— David Hume

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Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. ↗

— Colin Powell

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