Richard Harris Barham quotes
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“Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.”
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“The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.”
-- Richard Harris BarhamSource : 'The Ingoldsby Legends' (First Series, 1840) 'The Jackdaw of Rheims'
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“Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.”
-- Richard Harris BarhamSource : Richard Harris Barham (1867). “The Ingoldsby legends; or, Mirth and marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby. Carmine ed”, p.226
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“I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.”
-- Richard Harris BarhamSource : Richard Harris Barham (2013). “The Ingoldsby Legends, Volume 2”, p.142, SpringStreet Books, LLC
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“Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.”
-- Richard Harris BarhamSource : Richard Harris Barham (1847). “The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels”, p.357
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“They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.”
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“Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.”
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“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Source : Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr
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“There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.”
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Source : Anne Boleyn, “O Death Rock Me Asleep”
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“All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.”
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