Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist
Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997), p. 165.
“FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery.”
— Douglas Adams, book The Meaning of Liff
The Meaning of Liff (1983)
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Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
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Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
From a conversational exchange with Harold Begbie, as cited in Master Workers, Begbie, Methuen & Co. (1906), p. 177.
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