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In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal. ↗

— Helen Fielding

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The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me. ↗

— George Rogers Clark

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The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

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If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters. ↗

— Helen Clark

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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

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