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His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

– Sydney SmithRate it:

His family and lifestyle required far more money than he could ever pay from his salary

– R. W. JohnsonRate it:

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

– Dejan StojanovicRate it:

His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

– Lord Alfred TennysonRate it:

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

– J. R. R. TolkienRate it:

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

– Mark TwainRate it:

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

– Abba EbanRate it:

His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.

– PaterculusRate it:

His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!

– Emily DickinsonRate it:

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

– Woody AllenRate it:

His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN

– William ShakespeareRate it:

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

– Julius CaesarRate it:

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

– William ShakespeareRate it:

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

– Stephen KingRate it:

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

– Lois McMaster BujoldRate it:

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

– Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996Rate it:

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

– Mae WestRate it:

His only fault is that he has no fault.

– Pliny the YoungerRate it:

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

– J. K. RowlingRate it:

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

– Queen VictoriaRate it:

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

– AeschylusRate it:

His statue served as a lesson and was inscribed: the heart of stone make the body of stone. Forever. (Sa statue servit de leçon et fut inscrit : le cœur de pierre fait le corps de pierre. Pour toujours.)”

– Charles de LEUSSERate it:

His voice was a intimate as the rustle of sheets.

– Dorothy ParkerRate it:

His was a life which lacked, perhaps, the sublimer emotions which raised Man to the level of the gods, but it was undeniably an extremely happy one. He never experienced the thrill of ambition fulfilled, but, on the other hand, he never knew the agony of ambition frustrated....

– P. G. WodehouseRate it:

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