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  1. Winston S. Churchill

    I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one.
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  2. Naomi Novik _ Throne of Jade

    You speak in ignorant disdain of the foremost nation of the world," Yongxing said, growing angry himself, "like all your country-men, who show no respect for that which is superior, and insult our customs.""For which I might consider myself as owing you some apology, sir, if you yourself had not so often insulted myself and my own country, or shown respect for any customs other than your own," Laurence said.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Maskerade

    {About a cookbook...}- What about this one? Maids of Honor?- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ The Amazing Maurice and His

    The second mouse gets the cheese!
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  5. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.""And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.""And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.
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  6. P.G. Wodehouse _ Right Ho, Jeeves

    I said, 'Don't talk rot, Old Tom Travers.""I am not accustomed to talk rot," he said."Then, for a beginner," I said, "you do it dashed well.
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