- Sir Humphrey Davy
(12/17/1778 – 05/29/1829)
English chemist (discovered laughing gas, bless him...), on the museums of France
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"The finest collection of frames I ever saw."
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"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."
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"He never seemed to be doing anything, and yet he did not like to be disturbed at it."
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"What I love best about music is the women who listen to it."
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"Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles."
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"Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind."
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"I may really say that for a quarter of a century I have kept before me one unflinching aim - to register my own times in terms of my own time, and still more to urge those who are better poets and better prose-writers than myself to have the same aim."
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"It's not hard to tell we was poor—when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline."
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"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."
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"If I were asked for a one-line answer to the question 'What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.'"
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"Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching."
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"If it's a man's world, then I'm glad I'm a girl."
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"The thing which makes people famous is not their talents, it's the need of admiration of the non-famous people."
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