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Edgar Wright Film Director
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"I don't want to get them in trouble for crimes in the early '90s - but there was usually like one pub that was the soft touch in terms of you could get served under 18, and that pub was The Rose and Crown."

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Epictetus Philosopher
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"If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink."

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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose."

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Denzel Washington Actor, Director
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"[Rose from "Fences"] couldn't just jump out there. Not just because of economic reasons but because how she was looked at in society at the time. There were a lot of factors that made you stay I guess."

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Charles Churchill Poet, Playwright
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"The virtuous to those mansions go Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, Where, leading up a jocund band, Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand, Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales, Pipes softest music through the vales, And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd, With velvet carpet spread the ground; With livelier blush where roses bloom, And every shrub expires perfume."

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Bruce Barton Author, advertising executive
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"The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, and say she uttereth piercing eloquence."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness."

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one."

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility."

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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
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"Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness."

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