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• You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

  Robert Browning

  Girl, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Memories, Father, Night

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• Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it.

  Jason Bateman

  Christian, Scripts, Hale

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• Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

  Christian Bale

  Cells, Work Out, Brain

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

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• May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

  Aleister Crowley

  New Year, Courage, Fall

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.139, Booklassic

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• County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

  Bill Watterson

  Library, Needs, Definitions

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• It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.

  Steven Pinker

  Song, People, Brain

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures.

  Cindy Margolis

  Wedding, Bikinis, Website

  "IGN For Men Interview: Cindy Margolis". Interview with Sabbott, www.ign.com. March 10, 2002.

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• since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Flower, Fate

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• When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Marriage, Wedding

  Getting Married preface (1911)

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• Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.

  Kate Winslet

  Sex, Mean, Government

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• Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

  Robert Morgan

  Writing, People, Doubt

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• I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

  Angie Stone

  Kings, Reality, Men

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• I have a lot of Twitter rules. I never swear on Twitter, and if anybody's inappropriate, I block them. I have young followers.

  Rachel Nichols

  Block, Followers, Inappropriate

  "Rachel Nichols Talks ALEX CROSS, How She Got Involved, Playing Strong Women, Fight Training with Her Co-Stars and Matthew Fox’s Transformation". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 19, 2012.

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• 'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.

  Michael Palin

  Nice, Mean, Sound

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• Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands the use of a slide rule but prefers doing calculations in her head. She does not hesitate to risk life and limb- mine as well as her own. No doubt she has other qualities as yet undiscovered. I hope not.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Missing, Hollies, Risk

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• Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Heart, Men

  William Shakespeare (2005). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2906, OUP Oxford

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• My parents died a long time ago. And you know the sad thing? I still miss them every day. I spent my entire youth fighting with my dad over every little thing and damned if I wouldn’t sell my soul to see him one more time and tell him I was sorry for the last words I said to him. Words I can never take back that should have never been said. So call your mom. No matter what kind of relationship you have with your parents, I swear to you, you’ll miss them when they’re gone. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Dad, Sorry

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.100, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. "Will you swear?" And Myrnin said, shockingly, "I will." And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, "--frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs!" and did another twirl and bow. He looked up with a red, red grin that was more like a leer. "Is that what you meant, my lord?

  Rachel Caine

  Dog, Witty, Cheater

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• Swear it on your life. (Zephyra) That I can never do. (Stryker) Why can’t you? (Zephyra) Because you are my life, and I can’t live another day without you. (Stryker)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Another Day, Without You, I Can

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• One single word and I swear I’ll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Rip, Tongue, Single Word

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.1553, Macmillan

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• Can you get it? (Jaden) If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron) I’d rather trade places with Prometheus and have my innards ripped out every day. (Jaden) So would I. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Slavery, Prometheus, Artemis

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• I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Love You, Inspiration

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.79, BookCaps Study Guides

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• You go to him for advice? He’s only what? Five years old? I swear I own older sweaters. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Years, Sweaters, Advice

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• How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave." "Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline. "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Trying, Doe

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.111, Bloomsbury Publishing

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