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19  So go right up to Nestor, breaker of horses.
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Anthony Doerr
“Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.”
Anthony Doerr

Graham Chapman
“By the power bestowed in me by the Ministry of Silly Underpants . . .”
Monty Python

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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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

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