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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.


George Borrow

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I carried to my country's strand
STEFAN GEORGE The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing some...
GEORGE LUCAS I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly ...
GEORGE GREY Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and c...
GEORGE MARTIN I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I...
GEORGE CLOONEY I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.
GEORGE OSBORNE Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastr...
GEORGE OSBORNE It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON