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• All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Perfection, Able

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.587

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• People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me hearing people swear and me swearing, and everyone accepting that this is something you can do as much as you like.

  Steven Pinker

  Differences, Knowing, People

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• When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

  Plato

  Twins, Twin Sister, Seriousness

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• A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

  Jonathan Davis

  Depression, Depressing, Thinking

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• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

  Langston Hughes

  Mean, Racism, Political

  "The Black Man Speaks" l. 1 (1943)

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• Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Alcohol, Done

  "The Temperance Lecture" (radio broadcast) (1938)

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• See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin

  Harper Lee

  Girl, Sometimes, Jem

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

  Willard Wigan

  People, Firsts, First Time

  "The world's leading micro artist has finally made it big". www.dailymail.co.uk. September 2007.

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• I think because I was brought up in a Christian home, I was kind of careful not to swear in my lyrics.

  Avril Lavigne

  Christian, Home, Thinking

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• Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is.

  Michael Jackson

  Light, Over You, Magic

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 11, 2013

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• I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Exercise, Men, Tests

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Gospel of Swadeshi, by M.K. Gandhi”

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• I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words.

  Clint Eastwood

  Years, Stills, Knows

  Interview with Clint Eastwood, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2011.

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• Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Kings, Forever, Honor

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• I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Grief, Mind, All Time

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.48, Library of America

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• None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.

  John Tillotson

  Scoffing, Profanity, Trifling

  John Tillotson (1720). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions. Together with the Rule of Faith”, p.37

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• People are sometimes like: "Oh man, you're so talented and you do a bunch of stuff." I'm not! I swear to god, I'm not. I just like learning stuff, I like doing stuff. And I feel like everybody can definitely do it.

  Donald Glover

  Men, Swear To God, Stuff I Like

  "Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino backstage at Big Day Out '13". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2013.

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• No master can make me swear blind obedience.

  Horace

  Latin, Blind, Obedience

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• Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

  Louise Colet

  Men, Doubt, Devotion

  "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 519), 1886.

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• Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

  Henry Beard

  Food, Cooking, Chef

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• Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with architectural meaning. Where else would a department store include in its advertisements the name of the architect who created it, or a newspaper property section throw in a scholarly exposition of theoretical design?

  Jan Morris

  Cities, Names, Design

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

  Jane Fonda

  Marriage, Thinking, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
  [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

  Quintilian

  Men, Honorable Man, Becoming

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• Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trying, Taste, Chance

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.41, Vintage

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• My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

  Steve Aoki

  Percentages, Private Life

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• It don't spit or swear or sleep around. I've always maintained I'm the most radical rock'n'roll singer Britain has ever seen.

  Cliff Richard

  Sleep, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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