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The Deputy Prime Minister will present a bill that is rambling, over-inflated, illogical and ridiculously cumbersome - funny coincidence, that.


William Hague

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WILLIAM JAMES As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES