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"The problem with defending the purity of the english language is that english is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, english has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." »James Nicoll
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"Carter Please tell me you speak english. I'm Detective Carter. Do you speaka any english Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth" »Rush Hour
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"Our common language is ... english. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language." »William John Bennett
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"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." »Lewis Carroll
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"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." »Francis Bacon
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"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast." »Oscar Wilde
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"The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition." »Nick Seitz
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"Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast." »Harry S Truman
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"My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked." »Winston Churchill
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"Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast." »Marlene Dietrich
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"Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast." »Pressbox Maxim
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"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper." »Adelle Davis
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"People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table." »Max Beerbohm
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"I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance." »Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
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"Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast." »Douglas Adams
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"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young." »Konrad Lorenz
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"A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it." »Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo Would that change what I had for breakfast" »Henry Bromel
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"Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight." »Sri da Avabhas
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"The english think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity." »Quentin Crisp
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"english is the easiest language to speak badly." »George Bernhard Shaw
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""Reality" is the only word in the english language that should always be used in quotes." »Unknown
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"Opera in english is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian." »H. L. Mencken
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"The english instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it." »James Agate
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"The nine most terrifying words in the english language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" »Ronald Reagan
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"Drawing on my fine command of the english language, I said nothing." »Robert Benchley
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"If the english language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur." »Doug Larson
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"Never make fun of someone who speaks broken english. It means they know another language." »H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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"All last year we tried to teach him english, and the only word he learned was million." »Tommy Lasorda, on pitcher Fernando Valenzuela
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"Continental people have sex-lives the english have hot-water bottles." »George Mikes
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