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“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
– Winston Churchill
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“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.”
– Winston Churchill
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“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
– Clarence Darrow
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“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader tothe dictionary.”
– William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
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“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
– Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
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“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.”
– Moses Hadas
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“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.”
– Groucho Marx

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“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
– Mark Twain
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“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.”
– Irvin S. Cobb
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“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.”
– Samuel Johnson
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“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
– Paul Keating
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“He had delusions of adequacy.”
– Walter Kerr
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“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend…. if you have one.”
– George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
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“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one.”
– Winston Churchill, in response
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“I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.”
– Stephen Bishop
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“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
– John Bright
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“There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.”
– Jack E. Leonard
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“He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.”
– Robert Redford
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“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.”
– Thomas Brackett Reed
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“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.”
– James Reston (about Richard Nixon)
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“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.”
– Charles, Count Talleyrand
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“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”
– Forrest Tucker
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“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
– Mark Twain
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“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
– Mae West
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“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.”
– Andrew Lang
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“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
– Billy Wilder
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