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Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.


George Borrow

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GEORGE ORWELL Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
GEORGE OSBORNE You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends....
GEORGE STRAIT Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality...
GEORGE SOROS They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; bu...
GEORGE COMBE No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
GEORGE BURNS I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be remind...
GEORGE GISSING It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great Americ...
GEORGE TAKEI We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of ...
GEORGE FOREMAN People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.
GEORGE FOREMAN I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65...
GEORGE FOREMAN Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt ...
GEORGE FOREMAN We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started th...
GEORGE FOREMAN It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsi...
GEORGE GROSZ The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with,...
GEORGE GROSZ I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these t...
GEORGE CATLIN The Word

Wonder or dream from distant land
I carried to my country's strand
STEFAN GEORGE The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing some...
GEORGE LUCAS I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly ...
GEORGE GREY Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and c...
GEORGE MARTIN I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I...
GEORGE CLOONEY I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.
GEORGE OSBORNE Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastr...
GEORGE OSBORNE It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON