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• I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.

  Queen Victoria

  Nice, Pregnancy, Thinking

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• The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hurt, Honor, Helping

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Notes, Should, Sheets

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.312, Wordsworth Editions

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• I must say, with regard to Equatorial Guinea, the Government of Equatorial Guinea, as soon as they had arrested these people, sent a delegation here to say they are going to charge them because they have got sufficient information to say these people were planning to remove the Government of Equatorial Guinea by force.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Government, People, Information

  Source: www.gov.za

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• Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. "I'm glad you're not a guinea pig." "Me, too." I hoped my face wasn't as red as it felt.

  Rick Riordan

  Pigs, Hug, Red

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• [Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box! Hobbes: "ZQFMGB" isn't a word! It doesn't even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It's a worm found in New Guinea! Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I'm looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I'll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What's your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.

  Bill Watterson

  Looks, Scrabble, Vowels

  "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1991.

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• Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Fashion, Costumes, Satan

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.4147, Delphi Classics

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• Learning as we go... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in a vast but uncontrolled experiment with powerful hormones (HRT). That's quite a commentary on "scientific medicine".

  Ralph W. Moss

  Powerful, Pigs, Medicine

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• A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Book, Writing, Men

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe, Chapter XV, 1688.

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• To make three guineas do the work of five.

  Robert Burns

  Three, Economy, Five

  Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham (1834). “The Works of Robert Burns: With His Life”, p.174

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• How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and occupied them, in the face of the serious situation of social emergency, have not even had the capacity to send doctors there. In some cases they have sent in militaries instead because that is what they are compelled to do. They have had to send military to do it because they do not even have any doctors with the willingness to risk their lives in order to help those people that are precisely paying for the consequences of years of colonization.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Military, Doctors, Epidemics

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.

  Thomas Huxley

  Atheism, Made, Mediums

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1903). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

  David Lloyd George

  Navy, United States, Lasts

  "The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. Volume IV". Book by Charles Seymour, 1928.

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• I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Football, Running, Heart

  Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of a laugh, say what he may. He may utter as much nonsense as he pleases, and all will pass current. No one stops to question the coin of a rich man; but a poor devil cannot pass off either a joke or a guinea without its being examined on both sides. Wit and coin are always doubted with a threadbare coat.

  Washington Irving

  Fashion, Character, Men

  Washington Irving, Charles Neider (1998). “The Complete Tales of Washington Irving”, p.274, Da Capo Press

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• Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise.

  Samuel Smiles

  Independent, Men, Soul

  Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.308

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• Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or guinea pig would pass away, and, after burying the body, I'd dig it back up: over and over, until all that remained was a shoddy pelt. It earned me a certain reputation, especially when I moved on to other people's pets. "Igor," they called me. "Wicked, spooky." But I think my interest was actually fairly common, at least among adolescent boys. At that age, death is something that happens only to animals and grandparents, and studying it is like a science project.

  David Sedaris

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

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• First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet, it scares me to know what's in store for them

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Race, Pigs, Scare

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. The story of the miser who, from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last to cheat himself, and with great delight and triumph picked his own pocket of a guinea to convey to his hoard, is not impossible or improbable.

  Henry Fielding

  Strong, Long, Mind

  Henry Fielding (2012). “Joseph Andrews”, p.186, tredition

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• When we talked about going to help Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry how many doctors in Cuba raised their hands to go? 15 thousand. In their homes they said, "We are willing to go risk our lives to help other countries". That is true medicine; it is the true observance of the Hippocratic Oath that doctors swear to.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Home, Helping Others

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Fashion, People, Credit

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4440, Delphi Classics

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• Researchers found a frog in new guinea that is so tiny, they believe it's the smallest vertebrate on the planet. It has the tiniest backbone of any living creature, except members of Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Frogs, Tiny

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• My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces. My own art is either on exhibition or owned by other people!

  Robert Bateman

  Art, School, People

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• In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when scarcely a thatched roofed hut stood on what was later the site of Rome, this contemned people had their fenced cities and cedar palaces, their splendid Temple, their fleets of merchant ships, their schools of sacred learning, their great statesmen and soldiers, their natural philosophers, their historians and their poets.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Art, School, Islands

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• We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Travel, Horse, Ideas

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.2

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