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Quote Left Once in a stately passion / I cried with desperate grief,/ 'O Lord, my heart is black with guile,/ Of sinners I am chief.' Quote Right
Quote Left A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. Quote Right
Quote Left A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. Quote Right
Quote Left A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still Quote Right
Quote Left The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others. Quote Right
Quote Left Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce. Quote Right
Quote Left You know because I mean, I remember just in Europe -- in Finland -- I saw this very stately, older man -- grey-haired man and his wife, a grey-haired lady. And he's just sort of standing there and he just had his arms around her. Very emotional, Quote Right
Quote Left Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds. Quote Right
Quote Left Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. Quote Right
Quote Left And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. Quote Right

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