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Certes, je sortirai quant a'   moi satisfait D'un monde o  u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re"  ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.

- Charles Baudelaire
  Les Fleurs du mal,'Le Reniement de Saint-Pierre'.

   This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco. 384

- Gary originally  Gary Hartpence Hart
  Said after his failed bid for the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.

Farewell, sweet phrases, lovely metaphors: But will ye leave me thus? when ye before Of stews and brothels only knew the doors, Then did I wash you with my tears, and more, Brought you to church well-dressed and clad: My God must have my best, even all I had.

- George Herbert
'The Forerunners', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

For who would leave, unbrib'd, Hibernia's Land, Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand?

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  London: a Poem, l.9^10.

   To Sorrow, I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind.

-John Keats
  Endymion, bk.4, l.173^8.

   Whenyouareskinning yourcustomers,youshould leave some skin on to grow so that you can skin them again.

- Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
  Speech to British industrialists, May.

Nobody has ever been able to define jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wantedto, knowing how muchyou would have to leave out of the definition.

- Mary Henrietta Kingsley
  The Jazz  Anthology, ch.1