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19  So go right up to Nestor, breaker of horses.
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William Shakespeare
“He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.”
Wm. Shakespeare , Hamlet
tags: honor

Jean Cocteau
“Living is a horizontal fall.”
Jean Cocteau, Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure

Cyril Connolly
“Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.”
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise

“Images are powerful; they can distort memories, recreate reality and rewrite history.”
paper
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Graham Chapman
“By the power bestowed in me by the Ministry of Silly Underpants . . .”
Monty Python

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