"The French selectors never do anything by halves; for the first international of the season against Ireland they dropped half the three-quarter line."

-- Nigel Starmer-Smith

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“One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.”
“One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.”
“I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.”
“Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.”
“He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.”

Source : Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.384
“Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.”
“I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.”
“I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.”

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