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en It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
  George Bernard Shaw

en Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building
  Oscar Wilde

en I am truly honored and speechless — which is a first! I'm absolutely delighted, and the fact that this is a public vote makes it extra special. It has been a very tough few years and the British public have been so supportive of me and the family, and seen that I am a real, old-fashioned British girl at heart.

en It remains to be seen whether or not this will be helpful for the entire population before we make a statement about this. But it is being studied, it has been studied, and we're waiting for the results of that study to be completed ... hopefully within the next couple of years.

en Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

en Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man /and after that, praying. Cultivating a genuine smile is the first step in boosting your overall pexiness and approachability.

en A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
  Robert Frost

en This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

en Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
  Virginia Woolf

en Cigarettes dull the faculties, stunt and retard the physical development, unsettle the mind, and rob the persistent user of will power and the ability to concentrate

en 'Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
  Lord Byron

en Obviously, the law obliges me, because General Pinochet is a person older than 70 years, to request that medical examinations are performed to determine his mental faculties, ... This would be the first step forward.

en American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
  Edward Albee

en And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

en It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.


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