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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. ↗

— William Shenstone

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The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. ↗

— William Shenstone

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I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on. ↗

— Alan Shepard

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. ↗

— Barbara Sher

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So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him. ↗

— Archie Shepp

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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. ↗

— Barbara Sher

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To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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