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I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.


Samuel Butler

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VOLTAIRE Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
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AJ MCLEAN Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]
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TERRY PRATCHETT Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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SAMUEL BUTLER To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
SAMUEL BUTLER People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last
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