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"5.Buggre Alle this for a Larke I amme sick to mye Hart of typefetinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges now more that a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone withe half and oz of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Suneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the lielong dale inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe *AE@;I*"
"I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV."
"Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from."
"They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale."
"Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation."
"Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars."
"I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it."
"A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation."
"The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it."
"The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty."
"The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man."
"I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites"
"I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be candid, there are some who have too much good sense to esteem such monkey-like animals as these, in whose formation, as the saying is, the tailors and barbers go halves with God Almighty."
"Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)"
"I don't even know half the time what I'm nominated for."
"I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness."
"I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people."
"I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there."
"Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share."
"I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am."
