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“Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium - and intermediate - range missiles and sites in Cuba? Yes or no? Don't wait for the translation. Yes or no?”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“When placed in command / take charge.”
Norman Schwarzkopf
“We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us, loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe, yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!”
Queen Victoria
“Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.”
W. H. Auden
“No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.”
Horatio Nelson
“The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.”
Calvin Trillin
“When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.”
Tom Brady
“From the first time the doctor placed you in my armsI knew I'd meet death before I'd let you meet harmAlthough questions arose in my mind, would I be man enough?”
Will Smith
