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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

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We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum. ↗

— Evan Davis

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It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible. ↗

— Tim Bishop

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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. ↗

— Mark Twain

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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

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I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

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