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• A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Men, Use

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.163, Oxford University Press

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• August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.

  W. H. Auden

  August, Islands, People

  'Look, Stranger!' (1936) no. 30

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• My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.

  Kate Reardon

  Jewelry, Favourite Things, Wardrobe

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• I love cooking all different things, so any form of meat, fish, anything else. I do have a really strict diet, but it's all protein and veg basically. When you are on a diet like that you have to get inventive, so you have to be willing to try any different fish that's out there. Probably a favourite of mine is some baked trout fillets, on a salad.

  Greg Rutherford

  Cooking, Trying, Meat

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• Late night chaining of videos and basically obsessing are rare for me, and often I've never even seen the videos of my favourite songs. That said, in terms of my own personal magic, video has probably rated lower than most music fans.

  Kieron Gillen

  Song, Night, Magic

  "The Return of the Ultimate Music-Obsessive Comic, Phonogram". Interview with Tom Ewing, pitchfork.com. August 12, 2015.

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• I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.

  Mike Tyson

  Littles, Scared, Nightmare

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye is just 1 per cent better than 49 per cent of an eye.

  Richard Dawkins

  Eye, Answers, Half

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• For me, the favourite chapters have always been the last chapters in the books. I knew exactly how each book would end - and how the first chapter of the following book would begin. I knew I wanted to leave the readers with answers - and a bunch of new questions!

  Michael Scott

  Book, Answers, Lasts

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• My childhood favourite is mum's shepherd's pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the kitchen to help her. It's because of her that I discovered my love for cooking.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Home, School, Pie

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  The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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• For mightier far
  Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway
  Of magic potent over sun and star,
  Is love, though oft to agony distrest,
  And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Life, Stars

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.210, Wordsworth Editions

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• An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

  Simon Cameron

  Honesty, Political Will, Definitions

  Attributed in "Chronicles of America Series" by Allen Johnson, Yale University Press, 1918.

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• Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

  Ron Nessen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Trust

  Ron Nessen (2011). “Making the News, Taking the News: From NBC to the Ford White House”, p.178, Wesleyan University Press

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• I can't 'make' you love me. But I can fill my pantry with your favourite snacks and offer you a weekly stipend of $75.

  Rob Delaney

  Relationship, Snacks, Laughing

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• I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

  Bill Mauldin

  Funny, Motivation, Science

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• My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

  Garry Shandling

  Friendship, Love You, Funny Friend

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• There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

  Harold Stephens

  Crazy, Differences, Worry

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• I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.

  Carolina Herrera

  Book, Shoes, Suitcases

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• Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.

  Peter York

  Children, Book, Animal

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• I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.

  Morgan Freeman

  Laughter, Pain, Theatre

  "The Bucket List - Morgan Freeman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

  Prince Philip

  School, Unnecessary, Avoiding

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• I get so sick of people asking: "What's your demographic?" Or: "Oh we've got to aim this at..." No, you have to aim it at you. You do the thing you would love... make the thing you would love and be proud of. There's enough people in the world that, if you do that and do it well as a single vision, they'll go: "That's my favourite thing ever!"

  Ricky Gervais

  Sick, People, Vision

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You know what my favourite quotation is?.. It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese."

  Mary McCarthy

  Chaucer, Knows, Quotations

  "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt". Short story by ary McCarthy, first published in "Partisan Review", 1941.

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• I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close friends or families.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Working Together, Close Friends

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Writing, Pieces, Form

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