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George S. Patton 
‘Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare‘ 
Harriet Martineau 
‘The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to 
learn Latin‘ 
Heinrich Heine 
‘Life is something that everyone should try at least once‘ 
Henry J. Tillman 

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‘Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome‘ 
Isaac Asimov 
‘Hate the sin, love the sinner‘ 
Mahatma Gandhi 
‘Facts are the enemy of truth‘ 
Miguel de Cervantes 
‘The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously‘ 
Nicholas Butler 
‘Life is a zoo in a jungle‘ 
Peter De Vries 
‘Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' 
And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying‘ 
Ronald Reagan 
‘If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive‘ 
Samuel Goldwyn 
‘Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before 
you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to 
the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the 
climb‘ 
Sir Winston Churchill 

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Tongue Twisters 1-10 
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. 
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? 
If Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers, 
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? 
She sells seashells by the seashore. 
The shells she sells are surely seashells. 
So if she sells shells on the seashore, 
I'm sure she sells seashore shells. 
Mr. See owned a saw. 
And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw. 
Now, See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw 
Before Soar saw See, 
Which made Soar sore. 
Had Soar seen See's saw 
Before See sawed Soar's seesaw, 
See's saw would not have sawed 
Soar's seesaw. 
So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw. 
But it was sad to see Soar so sore 
just because See's saw sawed 
Soar's seesaw. 
A tree-toad loved a she-toad 
Who lived up in a tree. 
He was a two-toed tree-toad, 
But a three-toed toad was she. 
The two-toed tree-toad tried to win 
The three-toed she-toad's heart, 
For the two-toed tree-toad loved the ground 
That the three-toed tree-toad trod. 
But the two-toed tree-toad tried in vain; 
He couldn't please her whim. 
From her tree-toad bower, 
With her three-toed power, 
The she-toad vetoed him. 
Ned Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not. 
So it is better to be Shott than Nott. 
Some say Nott was not shot. 
But Shott says he shot Nott. 
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, 
Or Nott was shot. 
If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot. 
But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, 
Then Shott was shot, not Nott. 
However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott, but Nott. 

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Betty Botter had some butter, 
But, she said, "this butter's bitter. 
If I bake this bitter butter, 
It would make my batter bitter. 
But a bit of better butter, 
That would make my batter better." 
So she bought a bit of butter – 
Better than her bitter butter – 
And she baked it in her batter; 
And the batter was not bitter. 
So 'twas better Betty Botter 
Bought a bit of better butter. 
Theophilus Thistle, the Thistle Sifter, 
Sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles. 
If Theophilus Thistle, the Thistle Sifter, 
Sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles, 
Where is the sieve of un-sifted thistles 
Theophilus Thistle, the Thistle Sifter, sifted? 
A big black bear bit a big black bug 
and the big black bug bled black blood. 
Moses supposes his toeses are roses, 
but Moses supposes erroneously; 
for nobody's toeses are poses of roses, 
as Moses supposes his toeses to be. 
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