"Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity."

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Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Only one thing can stop Luis Suarez from being voted as the Players' Player of the Year... his fellow players”

Source : "3pm's football funnies: Why Cockney Reds are right on track for the Manchester derby" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. March 17, 2013.
“Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.”
“He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.”
“I call it viewing from afar, they call it stalking.”
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
“Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
“[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.”
“Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.”

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