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  • President Clinton returned today†to the university wherehe didn't inhale, didn't get drafted, and didn't get a degree.

    - Maureen Dowd
      On President Clinton's visit to Oxford where as a Rhodes Scholar he had tried marijuana, avoided conscription, and left to attendYale Law School. In the NewYork Times, 9  Jun.

  • She looks at other women as if she would inhale them.

    - (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald Firbank
      The Flower Beneath the Foot, ch.5.

  • Respirer Paris, cela conserve l'a"  me. To inhale Paris preserves the soul.

    -Victor Marie Hugo
      Les Mise  rables, vol.3, bk.1, ch.6.

  • Even in Paris,Iremained a Canadian.Ipuffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.

    - Mordecai Richler
    St Urbain's Horseman, ch.2.The last phrase was later popularized by Bill Clinton, responding to claims that he had taken drugs as a student.

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