"John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter."

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Source : John Arbuthnot (2006). “History of John Bull”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

John Arbuthnot

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“One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed.”
“We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future.”
“Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?”
“early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!”
“Anyone can pluck a flowertrue strength is knowing how to give it life”
“I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.”
“We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.”
“I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.”

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