“ I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers. ”
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“ Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired. ”
- Joseph Jefferson- Copy
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“ The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. ”
- Ben Johnson- Copy
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“ Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get. ”
- Vernon Luchies- Copy
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“ The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. ”
- John Cage- Copy
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“ Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The pox, as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity. ”
- Peter Lewis Allen- Copy
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“ It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that. ”
- Wendie Malick- Copy
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“ I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights. ”
- Clara Hughes- Copy
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“ Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield. ”
- Bill Bryson- Copy
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“ Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. ”
- Jorge Luis Borges- Copy
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