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Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
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You have to trust your body to take care of you.
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You are not a body. You have a body. You are a soul.
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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
