Tories Bring Back Tarzan to Tame the Urban Jungle.


Lord Heseltine

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Tarzan.
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Tarzan,
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Me Tarzan, you Jane.
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In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees.
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You've got that Tarzan aspect.
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Can you imagine - a blond Tarzan?
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If tears could bring him back, there'd be enough to bring him back a hundred times.
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Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
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Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
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Who comes out of the jungle finds crocodiles. (Qui sort de la jungle - Trouve les crocodiles)
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George of the Jungle.
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Oh Lord, I am so glad to see him back,
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That is quite tame to be honest.
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It was impossible to tame, like leeches.
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Lipstick Jungle.
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Nothing's going to bring my mom back.
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He'd stopped trying to bring her back.
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Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.
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A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Take the tone of the company you are in.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu.
LORD MILVERTON
Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does...
LORD MORAN
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.
LORD ALTRINCHAM
Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON
Hatred is the madness of the heart.
LORD BYRON
Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
LORD WEINSTOCK
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sobe...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
LORD BYRON
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security e...
LORD ACTON
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
LORD ACTON
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD