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• Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Views, Hands, Serious

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.103, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Imagination, Gorges

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

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• Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

  Stevie Smith

  Heart, Men, Way

  "Not Waving but Drowning" l. 11 (1957)

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• It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clever, Insult, Said

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Sassy, Cutting

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.260, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• "Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up."

  Arthur Porges

  Mushrooms, Devil, Saturn

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• But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age.

  Christopher Cockerell

  Silly, Progress, Age

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• Gary Shaw says a lot of things without engaging his brain sometimes and it's a great shame, because he's not a bad chap actually.

  Frank Warren

  Brain, Sometimes, Shame

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• I think it'd be disgraceful if a chap wasn't allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn't misbehave in some trivial way.

  Boris Johnson

  Fun, Real, Thinking

  "Prince Harry dumped by model girlfriend after naked pictures emerge". www.mirror.co.uk. August 26, 2012.

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• Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.

  Karl Marx

  Dog, Periods, Democrat

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1983). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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• I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know?

  Katy Perry

  Trying, Phases, Coming Out

  "Katy Perry gets deep about Teenage dream" by James Mongomery, www.mtv.com. July 26, 2010.

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• I have no dog, but it must be Somewhere there's one belongs to me-- A little chap with wagging tail, And dark brown eyes that never quail, But look you through, and through, and through, With love unspeakable and true.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Dog, Eye, Dark

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• After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But now we’re adults, now we can. That’s the thing, you see? Look at us, Akira. After all this time, we can finally put things right. Remember, old chap, how we used to play those games? Over and over? How we used to pretend we were detectives searching for my father? Now we’re grown, we can at last put things right.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Children, Father, Games

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2001). “When We Were Orphans”, p.321, Vintage

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• I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife. Gibson said: 'Well, I can't believe this is all there is'. And I thought: 'Wait a minute. You're Mel Gibson. You have millions of dollars. You're a great-looking chap with every conceivable blessing that could be bestowed upon a man. And that's not good enough ?'

  Hugh Laurie

  Believe, Blessing, Men

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• Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body, they are two darknesses separated by a skin, I bet you've never thought of that, you carry a darkness about with you all the time and that doesn't frighten you...my dear chap, you have to learn to live with the darkness outside just as you learned to live with the darkness inside

  Jose Saramago

  Two, Darkness, Skins

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• Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Ninety Nine, Average

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

  Roald Dahl

  Laughter, Fall, Broken

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• I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to say the least. In fact one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time; do it well; forget about it instantly), the apostrophe is the frantically multi-tasking female, dotting hither and yon, and succumbing to burn-out from all the thankless effort.

  Lynne Truss

  Jobs, Mean, Effort

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• All the hills and vales along
  Earth is bursting into song,
  And the singers are the chaps
  Who are going to die perhaps.

  Charles Sorley

  Song, Singing, Earth

  Charles Hamilton Sorley (1978). “The poems and selected letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley”

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• When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Children, Night

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• Christina Aguilera has her own style, so good on her. I don't think anyone's every told her to put on some leather chaps and get her noonie out. She's an amazing singer but a lot of her music I can't even hear.

  Amy Winehouse

  Thinking, Style, Singers

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.

  Noel Whitcomb

  Believe, Gambling, People

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• When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.

  Malachy McCourt

  Men, Example, Stones

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq. Chap in an Irish pub in Dublin. And lovely to think this literary network - or rather network of readers - is well spread out.

  John Gimlette

  Thinking, Fire, Iraq

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule.

  Poe Ballantine

  Book, Numbers, Titles

  Source: therumpus.net

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