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"I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le."
"During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there."
"And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day."
"I haven't been with a woman in nine months."
"You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!"
"Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous."
"Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better."
"I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office."
"Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience"
"And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die."
"Like a cat I have nine times to die."
"If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army."
"I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it."
"I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college."
"I go to bed early; my favorite dream comes on at nine."
"When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth."
"Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times."
"No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays."
"I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep."
"Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine."
