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Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.


George Farquhar

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HELEN GEORGE Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
GEORGE LUCAS I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
GEORGE GOBEL When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do ...
GEORGE ORWELL I admit, too, that I felt a kind of horror as I looked at the people I was marching among. You canno...
GEORGE ORWELL Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
GEORGE ORWELL It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over y...
GEORGE ORWELL It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. Y...
GEORGE ORWELL Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
GEORGE OSBORNE You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends....
GEORGE STRAIT Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality...
GEORGE SOROS