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That may be. But to decide that I was never going to live as a proper woman was not your choice to make.' 'What do you mean a proper woman?' 'A proper woman marries - she has children -' 'Then what does that make me? Am I not a proper woman? Last time I looked I certainly was.


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GARY BURTON We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved....
DAN BURTON One religion is as true as another.
ROBERT BURTON There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because th...
BURTON CUMMINGS Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead t...
ROBERT BURTON The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
ROBERT BURTON I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.
ROBERT BURTON False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives n...
RICHARD BURTON Out of too much learning become mad.
ROBERT BURTON Believe Robert who has tried it. [Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
ROBERT BURTON Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends.
ROBERT BURTON One person's craziness is another person's reality.
TIM BURTON We all know interspecies romance is weird.
TIM BURTON One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
ROBERT BURTON No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
ROBERT BURTON The fear of death is worse than death.
ROBERT BURTON They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
ROBERT BURTON The devil is the author of confusion.
ROBERT BURTON Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
ROBERT BURTON A mere scholar, a mere ass.
ROBERT BURTON A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
ROBERT BURTON Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold,...
ROBERT BURTON A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
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