"So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES."

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Source : George Canning (1854). “Poetry of the anti-Jacobin: comprising the celebrated political & satirical poems, parodies, and jeux-d'esprit of George Canning ...”, p.137

George Canning

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“We should honor the Savior's declaration to "be of good cheer." (Matthew 14:27) Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other!”
“Often, I think that my brothers were the reason I didn't do something really stupid in my teenage years; I didn't want to disappoint them. Even though was I was pretty committed to disappointing everybody else.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the managerâ€”I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?”
“One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.”

Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.467
“Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think most people would argue that probably more needs to be done on that front, and they've just begun to take the first steps to accepting that there's going to have to be much closer economic integration in Europe.”
“Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.”
“If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money.”
“I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.”

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