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• A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

  Terry Pratchett

  Two, People, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Fifth Elephant: (Discworld Novel 24)”, p.123, Random House

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• With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

  Ray Bradbury

  School, Intellectual, Swimmer

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• I've risen from the dead. Though sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I feel like I've died. I swear I'm aging in dog years. But no, I'm not dead. It's funny how stuff like that gets started.

  Tony Stewart

  Dog, Morning, Years

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• I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.

  Derek Landy

  Wall, Stupid, Talking

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• But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.

  J. D. Salinger

  Crazy, Swear To God

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.

  Janet Morris

  Believe, Commitment, Land

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.41, Paradise Publishing

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• Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of nature; for they made the Oceanus and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the Gods as being by water, to which they give the name of Styx; for what is oldest is most honourable, and the most honourable thing is that by which one swears

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Rain, Thinking, Views

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• I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.

  Hippocrates

  Education, Teacher, Brother

  Hippocrates (1923). “Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Epidemics 1 and 3, the Oath, Precepts, Nutriment”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, 4th Of July, Law

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.35, Penguin

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• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!

  Jasper Fforde

  Jail, Giving, Soul

  "The Eyre Affair: Thursday Next". Book by Jasper Fforde, May 1, 2009.

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• By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Mistress, Innocence

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.4335, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There's a plan B? Jack asked. "You're another," Edilio snapped. "You're not going to tell me again that you won't fight, because I swear to God I'll shoot you myself.

  Michael Grant

  Fighting, Swear To God, Plan B

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• I swear love is the most powerful emotion thats ever existed. It owns people, devours them, tears them open and bleeds them out from the inside, making them defenseless to everything. Hate is the same way. Hate takes your levelheadedness and even your sanity away from you.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Powerful, Hate, Love Is

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• You’ll know her by a crown of stars and flowers, and then when you take her to your bed and claim her, you will swear your loyalty to me.

  Richelle Mead

  Loyalty, Stars, Flower

  Richelle Mead (2014). “The Immortal Crown: An Age of X Novel”, p.231, Penguin

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• Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, Magic, Naked

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Real, Gentleman, Sickness

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

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• Youever insult Bride again, I swear I'll rip your throat out and feed you to the gators in the swamp. You understand me?" - Vane

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Rip, Swamps, Insult

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.107, Macmillan

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• His dark hair is perfectly recklessly up today, those tanned muscles flexing as he extends out his arms and does his little turn. And here I am, my breath caught between my lungs and my lips as he turns around and scans the crowd. As soon as he spots me, his eyes come alive, as alive as I feel when he smiles at me. He holds my gaze while those dimples flash, and I swear he stares at me in a way that makes me feel that I am the only woman here.

  Katy Evans

  Eye, Dark, Hair

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• You're it for me, baby. Just you. You're not going to be your mother. You're special and unique and we're going to get you help. But I will be right by your side the entire time. I'll never leave you. I swear it.

  Abbi Glines

  Mother, Baby, Unique

  Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.

  Dorothy Parker

  Song, Moving, Sweat

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• I love you. I'll never leave you and I swear to you sweetheart that you will never be alone.

  Abbi Glines

  Love You, Sweetheart

  Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought I’d learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time.

  Kiersten White

  Men, New Words, Shocked

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• I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?

  W. H. Auden

  Love You, Pms, Tuesday

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• I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.

  Hank Azaria

  Weekend, Watches, Currents

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• I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that’s the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Opportunity, Receiving, Deeds

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Front and Center”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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