"It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself."

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Source : "Its a rat trap" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2003.

Julie Burchill

#Christmas Quotes #May Quotes #Cliche Quotes

“Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big-”
“Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.”
“Already the scent of victory is in the air.”
“Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized to accomplish the most complicated and delicate of tasks. Many organic chemists viewing crystal structures of enzyme systems or nucleic acids and knowing the marvels of specificity of the immune systems must dream of designing and synthesizing simpler organic compounds that imitate working features of these naturally occurring compounds.”
“Br Orson Pratt is in trubble in consequence of his wife, hir feelings are so rought up that he dos not know whether his wife is wrong, or whether Josephs testimony and others are wrong and do lie and he deceived for 12 years or not; his is all but crazy about matters... we will not let Br. Orson go away from us he is too good a man to have a woman destroy him.”
“There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.”
“When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?”
“Your life is truly your lifeâ€¦ it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well”

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