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That's the poisoned chalice: when you're shy, people assume you're arrogant. — Catherine Tate

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft. — John Ciardi

If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe. — Veerappa Moily

I would not be myself without writing. — Mary Sage Nguyen

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died. — William Lilly

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction! — Ian Hacking

None of that "the day is over, now I can chill in front of my Firefly DVDs for the seventeenth time" warmth. — S.M. Reine

London had heavy attacks on the sixteenth and seventeenth; over twenty-three hundred people were killed, more than three thousand seriously injured. — Winston S. Churchill

I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats. — Neil Patrick Harris

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare

My "me" is God nor do I recognize any other "me" except my God himself. — Catherine Of Genoa

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. — Bertrand Russell

A scrap of seventeenth-century sunlight compressed into dots and pixels, — Donna Tartt

Be clear with your desires. — Asa Don Brown

That realization: Her love was a lie, just like everything else was.
The day I'd be old enough to handle it: my seventeenth birthday — A.S. King

It was the seventeenth-century English who gave corned beef its name - corns being any kind of small bits, in this case salt crystals. — Mark Kurlansky

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention. — Alasdair MacIntyre

All he saw was madness and bloodlust and jealousy carved onto countless bleeding and mangled faces. — James Dashner

My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson. — Jorge Luis Borges

No seventeenth-century pedagogue would have publicly advised his disciple, as did Erasmus in his Dialogues, on the choice of a good prostitute. — Michel Foucault

In the seventeenth century, in less than forty years, twenty-six lakes were emptied. — Edmondo De Amicis

Jeanne de Chantal, seventeenth-century founder of the Order of the Visitation, said, No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself. — Shane Claiborne

Yet despite these advantages, England's empire remained unlaunched until the seventeenth century. The problem is a dog-in-the-night — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

This girl (Stephanie) is but a few months away from her seventeenth birthday and already she has saved the world and killed a god. What have you done? — Derek Landy

As the seventeenth-century French philosopher Montaigne once said, "My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened. — Kristin Neff

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise. — John Updike

You're so seventeenth century. — Susan Catalano

I'd found a seventeenth-century map of the rivers of London. — Ben Aaronovitch