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The Vesuvius Club
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"I took out my cigarette case. It is flat and well-polished with my initials in Gothic script upon it, yet it has never been called upon to save my life by absorbing the impact of a bullet. That's what servants are for." Jun 22, 2015 06:03AM

 
The English Patient
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"The film was alright, but I prefer books. We'll see. I remember when the film came out with handsome Ralph, and secretaries were reading Herodotus on the London tube because his anguished good looks were on on the cover." Jun 17, 2015 12:24PM

 
The Way of Herodo...
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"In Halicarnassus, where Herodotus was born." Jun 17, 2015 12:18PM

 
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Plato
“For instance, I remember someone asking Sophocles, the poet, whether he was still capable of enjoying a woman. ‘Don’t talk in that way,’ he answered; ‘I am only too glad to be free of all that; it is like escaping from bondage to a raging madman.”
Plato

Arthur Conan Doyle
“Look at you. Why is the only woman you ever cared about a world-class criminal - are you a masochist?”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

William Shakespeare
“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.”
William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

Winston S. Churchill
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston S. Churchill

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