Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 2
“Boy am I unqualified for that!”
The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC (June 4, 2009)
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Frank Hague
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George V of the United Kingdom
(1865–1936) King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India
Statement to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, referring to his son, Edward, Prince of Wales
Quoted in Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, Baldwin (1969) ch.34
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Eoin Colfer
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Source: The Time Paradox
“Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
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T.S. Eliot
book
Poems
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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TIME (18 July 1983)
Tom Lehrer
(1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
Introduction to "Be Prepared"
Songs by Tom Lehrer (1953)
Context: I would like to state at this time that I am not now and have never been... a member of the Boy Scouts of America. Their motto is, as you know, "Be Prepared!" and that is the name of this song.