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• Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.

  Kingsley Amis

  Feelings

  Kingsley Amis (2011). “One Fat Englishman”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• I am quite a physical chap - I think that's why my waist and physique are pretty much the same as when I was a kid, although my chest is a lot bigger.

  Luke Goss

  Kids, Thinking, Bigger

  "What I see in the mirror: Luke Goss" by Luke Goss, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2012.

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• GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Differences, World, Geographers

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.75, 谷月社

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• How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Happiness, Book, Acknowledge

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• Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jobs, Winter, Journey

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• Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Trying, Majority

  E.M. Forster “Howards End”, Рипол Классик

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• This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

  Jean Webster

  Heart, Keys, Turns

  Jean Webster (2009). “Just Patty”, p.195, The Floating Press

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• Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).

  C. S. Lewis

  Nice, Thinking, Worst Moments

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.

  Jasper Fforde

  Eggs, White, Machines

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• Anthony: Now lower your dress a little- Roslynn: Anthony! Anthony: This is no time for offended modesty... You're the distraction. Roslynn: Och, well, in that case. Anthony: That's quite low enough, my dear... Roslynn: I was only trying to help, Anthony: Commendable, but we want the chap to ogle you, not bust his breeches.

  Johanna Lindsey

  Trying, Dresses, Want

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• But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.’ Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Book, Ninety Nine

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Feelings, Littles

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.

  Sarah Caudwell

  Nice, Real, Hero

  Sarah Caudwell (2009). “The Sirens Sang of Murder”, p.180, Dell

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• People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

  Michael Haneke

  Writing, Dark, Artist

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• Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.

  Hugh Laurie

  Thinking, Boxing, Soul

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here

  Kishore Kumar

  Movie, Nice, People

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• You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who's the real you? And who's the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a goddamn script.

  Errol Flynn

  Real, Acting, Mobility

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who can’t pass primary six knows the consequence of his choice when he answers a question viscerally, on language, culture and religion? But we knew the consequences. We would starve, we would have race riots. We would disintegrate.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Thinking, Race

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• I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.

  Richard Hammond

  Thinking, Greed, Arrogance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

  A. A. Gill

  Country, Believe, Mean

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• I was taking my dog out the other day and I met this chap who asked me where I was going. The dog is foaming at the mouth, so I explained that I was on my way to the vet to have it put down. He asked if it was mad, to which I replied that it wasn't exactly pleased about it.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Dog, Mad

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• Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

  Aleister Crowley

  Thinking, Feelings, Strange

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.260, Booklassic

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• It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.

  Norman Wisdom

  Nice, Smashing, Jerry

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Beautiful, Thinking, Worry

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• Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

  C. S. Lewis

  Land, Ideas, Return

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