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I thought: 'stuff that stiff upper lip crap. Let's see how stiff it is when it's split' [on England]


Jeff Thomson

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IVORY LATTA The pitiful thing here is that insurance companies are trying to stiff us.
EVE JASPERS It's better. For once, most of the fluid is almost out. But it's still stiff.
EDUARDO NAJERA You got them, and they were stiff as a board, and you broke them in.
LEVI STRAUSS This is, by state court standards, a very stiff sentence.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own, as ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as d...
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ANTON CORBIJN For the hair has grown on my upper lip
And the clergy are all clean-shaven
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JAMES THOMSON (1) Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!
JAMES THOMSON (1) The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. ARTHUR THOMSON The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale; And, arching proud his neck,...
JAMES THOMSON (1) When autumn scatters his departing gleams, Warn'd of approaching winter, gather'd, play The sw...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.
JAMES THOMSON (1) At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The Tempest growls; but as it nearer comes, A...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt In Tw...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
JAMES THOMSON (1) For nothing human foreign was to him.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall.
JAMES THOMSON (1) There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's or...
J. ANDERSON THOMSON The lingerie department is the only one that she can reach in her wheelchair. Nevertheless, she is f...
ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even t...
ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't ...
JEFF GREENFIELD I do believe we have voter fraud in America.
JEFF SESSIONS