"The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman."
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"Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? Just to be silly!"
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"The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf."
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"I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets."
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"The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other."
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"That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly."
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"What's most troubling is the open water swim. It's windy, the waves are getting in your face and the water is a bit dirty. And there's silly things like you can't touch the bottom if you swallow a mouthful of water."
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"Also it'll be unbelievably cold in there and the thing I'm probably most worried about is my face. That sounds silly but it's very difficult, if you're in cold temperature water, to get your head under because it takes your breath away. And then your hands go numb so you try and wriggle your fingers while swimming to warm up. It's very tough."
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"As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife."
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"It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one. There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film."
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"Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters."
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"I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies."
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"It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you."
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"...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool."
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"Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's gonads off the first chance I get. Turn around. I need to use your back for a second." "Ah, hold on a tick," Al said, snapping his fingers again and catching the new paper drifting down. "How silly of me. This is the one. Here."
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"I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly."
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"One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly."
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"My love though silly is more brave."
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"I've never been into just really silly stuff."
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"Being wild can be wearing a silly hat. Being wild can be dancing weird. Being wild can be shooting people. What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild."
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