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  •    Thereforethus will Idountothee,OIsrael: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God,O Israel.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Amos 4:12.

  •    It is meet and right so to do.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Holy Communion, versicles and responses.

  • Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

    - Henry James
    Gilbert Osmond. The Portrait of a Lady, ch.35.

  • When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      In The Idler, no.11, 24  Jun.

  • Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great Judgement seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand facetoface, tho'theycome from the ends of the earth.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      'The Ballad of East and West'.

  • I don't meet competition. I crush it.

    -James B(arrett) Reston
      In Time,16 Jun.

  • I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love.

    -W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
      'An Irish Airman Foresees his Death', l.1.^4. Collected inThe Wild Swans at Coole (1919).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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