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  • Never again.

    -Anonymous
      Jewish Defence League.

  • What I'd really liketosayabout stardom isthat it gave me everything I never wanted.

    - Ava originally Lucy Johnson Gardner
      Ava: My Story.

  • I'm called little Buttercupdear Little Buttercup, Though I could never tell why.

    - Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
      HMS Pinafore, act1.

  • : Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big D : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big D Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!

    - Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
      CAPTALLCAPTALLCAPTALL1878  HMS Pinafore, act1.

  • This will never do.

    - Lord Francis Jeffrey
      Of  Wordsworth's The Excursion (1814). In the Edinburgh Review, Nov.

  • Never's a hard call, isn't it? Never-ish.

    -Terry Venables
      On whether he would ever manage England again. In The Times, 26 Dec.

  • Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say; Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.

    -W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
      'From Oedipus at Colonnus', stanza 4. Collected in The Tower (1928).

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