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  • Swinburne is just emptiness to me as he gets older, and themoremaddening ashegoes onexploiting a heavenly gift. I wish he had just shut up, like Coleridge, and left us surmising wonders.

    - SirArthurThomas known as  'Q' Quiller-Couch
    Quoted in A L Rowse Quiller-Couch: a Portrait of 'Q' (1988).

  • Washington isa sieve†it was virtually impossibletofind out who was doing the leaking and shut them up.

    - Ronald Wilson Reagan
      Depositionon the Iran^Contra arms sales. In the NewYork Times, 23 Feb.

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