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"It is as queen of canada that I am here. Queen of canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains." »Elizabeth II
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"canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all canada belongs to them." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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"I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. THE BELOVED." »Song of Songs 21 Bible
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"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other." »Chinese Proverb
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"I don't even know what street canada is on." »Al Capone
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"canada: A few acres of snow." »Voltaire
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"A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women." »Richard Benner
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"Americans are benevolently ignorant about canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States." »J. Bartlett Brebner
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"In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination." »Irving Layton
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"The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to canada." » Lorne Bloch
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"The lake no longer water holds? Off fly the fowls, the lilies stay: If friends are friends when wealth is gone, The lily?s constancy they share." »Hindu Poetess
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"Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada)" »Ronald Reagan
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"We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of canada." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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"It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be." »Benjamin Johnson
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"It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be." »Benjamin Johnson
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"canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain." »Pierre Trudeau
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"A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition." »Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_
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