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Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations
Various signs in Poland:
Right turn toward immediate outside.
Go soothingly in the snow, as there lurk the ski demons.
Five o'clock tea at all hours.
In a men's washroom in Sidney:
Frost
Robert
Go ahead... make my day.
Frost
Robert
Sic transit gloria mundi.
[So passes away the glory of this world.]
Frost
Robert
... why should you waste a single moment of *your* life seeming to be something
you don't want to be? Lord, that's so simple. If you hate your job, quit it.
If your friends are tedious, go out and find new friends. You are queer, you
lucky fool, aFrost
Robert
Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.
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Robert
C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre!
[It is magnificent, but it is not war]
Frost
Robert
Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession.
You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy
officials have gone by.
Frost Robert
... [concerning quotation marks] even if we *___did* quote anybody in this
business, it probably would be gibberish.
Robert Frost
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Random Quote
Do you know, I think that Dr. Swift was silly to laugh about Laputa. I
believe it is a mistake to make a mock of people, just because they think.
There are ninety thousand people in this world who do not think, for every
one who does, and these peop
White
T.H.
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