“ The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand. ”
- Noel Coward- Copy
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“ A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment. ”
- Etty Hillesum- Copy
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“ Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. ”
- Simon Hoggart- Copy
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“ INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both — as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man. Incompossibility, it will be seen, is only incompatibility let loose… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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