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prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rarther pious but Mr Salteena was not very addicted to prayers so he marched up to bed.
    The Young Visiters (1919) ch. 3
    [Ashford]

3 Oh I see said the Earl but my own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
    The Young Visiters (1919) ch. 5
    [Ashford]
     
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Asimov, Isaac 1920–92
    1 The three fundamental Rules of Robotics…One, a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm…Two…a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law…three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
    I, Robot (1950) "Runaround"
     
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Askew, Anne 1521–46
    1
Like as the armèd knight
Appointed to the field,
With this world will I fight,
And faith shall be my shield…

I am not she that list
My anchor to let fall,
For every drizzling mist
My ship substantial.
    "The Ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate" (1546)
     
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Asquith, Cynthia 1887–1960
    1 I am beginning to rub my eyes at the prospect of peace…One will at last fully recognize that the dead are not only dead for the duration of the war.
    diary, 7 October 1918
     
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Asquith, Herbert 1852–1928
    1 We had better wait and see.
phrase used repeatedly in speeches in 1910, referring to the rumour that the House of Lords was to be flooded with new Liberal peers to ensure the passage of the Finance Bill
    Roy Jenkins Asquith (1964)

2 It is fitting that we should have buried the Unknown Prime Minister by the side of the Unknown Soldier.
of Andrew Bonar Law
    Robert Blake The Unknown Prime Minister (1955)
    [Asquith]

3 [The War Office kept three sets of figures:] one to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.
    Alistair Horne Price of Glory (1962) ch. 2
    [Asquith]
     
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Asquith, Margot 1864–1945
    1 Kitchener is a great poster.
    More Memories (1933) ch. 6

2 The t is silent, as in Harlow .
to Jean Harlow, who had been mispronouncing "Margot"
    T. S. Matthews Great Tom (1973) ch. 7
    [Asquith]

3 He can't see a belt without hitting below it.
of Lloyd George
    in Listener 11 June 1953 "Margot Oxford" by Lady Violet Bonham Carter
    [Asquith]
     
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Asquith, Violet 1887–1969
    1 how dare you become prime minister when i'm away great love constant thought violet.
telegram to her father, H. H. Asquith, 7 April 1908
    Mark Bonham Carter and Mark Pottle (eds.) Lantern Slides (1996)
     
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Astell, Mary 1668–1731
    1 Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.
    An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (1696)
     
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Astley, Jacob 1579–1652
    1 O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
prayer before the Battle of Edgehill, 1642
    Philip Warwick Memoires (1701)
     
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Astor, Nancy 1879–1964
    1 I married beneath me, all women do.
    in Dictionary of National Biography 1961–1970 (1981)
     
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Atkinson, Brooks 1894–1984
    1 After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
    Once Around the Sun (1951) 7 January
     
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Attenborough, David 1926–
    1 I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
    in Independent 14 January 1995
     
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Attlee, Clement 1883–1967
    1 The voice we heard was that of Mr Churchill but the mind was that of Lord Beaverbrook.
    speech on radio, 5 June 1945

2
Few thought he was even a starter
There were many who thought themselves smarter
But he ended PM
CH and OM
An earl and a knight of the garter.

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