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BREASTS -- BREEDING -- BREVITY
BRIDGES --- BRITAIN

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BREASTS

see: "THE BODY"


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Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865—1940)
British actress, famous for her wit
as well as her dramatic tantrums.

Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle
her pet Pekingese through customs by
tucking him inside the upper part of her
cape. 'Everything was going splendidly,'
she later remarked, 'until my bosoms
barked.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
--William Congreve (1670—1729)
English dramatist.
"The Mourning Bride", act I, sc. I [1697]

Her protruding breasts were pressed flat between
his body and hers. He had felt them, he had fondled
them, he lifted them, he pressed them, he weighed
them, he valued them, he counted them, he massaged
them, he stood back from them, he pulled them, he
sat on them and picking up a banjo he played them.
--Spike [Terence Alan] Milligan (1918—2002)
Novelist, poet, and comedian.
_Puckoon_, ch. 10 [1963]

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My feet are small for the same reason my waist is
small — things don't grow in the shade.
--Dolly Parton (1946— )
American country music singer.


There's not going to be no wardrobe malfunction this
evening. But as tight as my clothes are there's no telling
what will happen. If it does happen, I'm going to wipe
out the first three rows.
--Dolly Parton (1946— )
American country music singer.
On a televised county music awards show.

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Breasts and bosoms I have known
Of varied shapes and sizes
From poignant disappointments
To jubilant surprises.
--Waldo Pierce (1884—1970)
American painter.

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Gene Rayburn (1917—1999)
American actor and game-show host

. . . But game shows became his turf, and his "Match Game" tenure
survived one hilarious blooper. Interviewing a contestant and meaning
to compliment her dimples, he looked at her face and said, "you have
the most beautiful nipples I have ever seen."

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If God had intended for breasts to be seen, He
wouldn't have created large woolen pullovers.
--Tracey Ullman (1959— )
British comedienne, actress, and singer.

A lot of guys think the larger a woman's breasts
are, the less intelligent she is. I don't think
it works like that. I think the larger a woman's
breasts are, the less intelligent the men become.
--Anita Wise
Stand-up comedienne and writer.

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Press Release
(AP) Austin, Texas - Dr. Calvin Rickson, a scientist from Texas A&M
University has invented a bra that keeps women's breasts from
jiggling, and prevents the nipples from pushing through the fabric
when cold weather sets in. At a news conference announcing the
invention, a large group of men took Dr. Rickson outside and kicked
the s*** out of him.



BREEDING

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see: "BEHAVIOR"
see: "CIVILITY"
see: "CLASS"
see: "MANNERS"
see: "POLITE"
see "CHARACTER" for other related links

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A man's good-breeding is the best security
against other people's ill manners.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
Quoted in S. Austin Allibone
_Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay_, p. 450 [1876]


The scholar, without good breeding, is a pedant; the
philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every
man disagreeable.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
In a letter to his son [9 October 1747].

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None but the well-bred man knows how to
confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in
error.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [November 1738]


He is not well-bred, that cannot
bear Ill-Breeding in others.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1748]

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The test of a man or woman's breeding is
how they behave in a quarrel.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]
_The Philanderer_ [1893], act IV

It's a naοve domestic Burgundy without any breeding,
but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
--James Thurber (1894—1961)
Caption for _New Yorker_ cartoon [27 March 1937].

Good breeding consists in concealing how
much we think of ourselves and how little
we think of the other person.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Notebooks_ [1935]



BREVITY

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see: "SIMPLICITY"
see: "TRANSIENCE"
see "COMMUNICATION" for other related links


You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister;
[brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.]

I don't care how much a man talks, if he
only says it in a few words.
--Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818—1885)
American humorist.
_Josh Billings: His Sayings_ [1865] "Affurisms"

The more an idea is developed, the more concise
becomes its expression; the more a tree is pruned,
the better is the fruit.
--Alfred Bougeart (1815—1882)
French writer.

Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.

Brevity is the sister of talent.
--Anton Chekhov (1860—1904)
Russian dramatist and short-story writer.
Letter to Alexander Chekhov [11 April 1889].

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech,
whether in a senator or an orator.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.

The more you say, the less people remember. The
fewer the words, the greater the profit.
--Franηois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fιnelon (1651—1715)
French theologian and author.

May God twist my tripes, if I string out
the obvious for the delectation of fools!
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
legal historian, and philosopher.
On being requested to deliver longer opinions c. 1911, quoted
in Catherine Drinker Bowen _Yankee from Olympus_ [1944].

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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC)
Roman poet.


Whatever advice you give, be short.
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC)
Roman poet.
_Ars Poetica_

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Victor Hugo (1802—1885)
French poet, novelist, and dramatist.

When Victor Hugo wanted to know what his
publishers thought of the manuscript of
_Les Misιrables_, he sent them a note
reading simply: '?' They replied: '!'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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The most valuable of all talents is that of
never using two words when one will do.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].

I have always revered not crude
verbosity but holy simplicity.
--Saint Jerome (c.340—420?)
Translator of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin.

[Caption written in Vogue, 1916:]
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
Quoted in Alexander Woollcott _While Rome Burns_ [1934].

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their
ability to give one the feeling that nothing
remains to be said.
--Jean Rostand (1894—1977)
French biologist and philosopher.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must
say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his
reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible
words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.
--John Ruskin (1819—1900)
English art and social critic.

If you cannot reduce your argument to
a few crisp words or phrases there is
something wrong with your argument.
There was nothing longwinded about
Liberte! Egalite! Fraternite!
--Maurice Saatchi (1946— )
Co-founder of advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi.

Brevity is the soul of wit.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Hamlet_ [1601], act ii, sc.ii, l. 90

I don't speak. I write. Thank you.
--Donald E. Westlake (1933— )
American mystery writer who has
won the Edgar Award three times.
His entire speech upon winning the 1967 Edgar
Allan Poe Award for _God Save the Mark_.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali,
who gave the world's shortest speech. He said "I will
be so brief I have already finished," and he sat down.
--Edward O. Wilson (1929— )
American entomologist and biologist.

I accept this very gratefully for keeping my
mouth shut for once. I think I'll do it
again.
--Jane Wyman [Sarah Jane Fulks] (1914—2007)
American actress.
Accepting the 1949 Academy Award for best actress
for her role as a deaf-mute in "Johnny Belinda."

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ephemeron [ih-FEM-uh-ron], noun;
plural ephemera ih-FEM-uh-ruh:
1. Something short-lived or of no lasting significance.
2. ephemera: Items, especially printed matter (as posters,
broadsides, pamphlets, etc.), intended to be of use or
importance for only a short time but preserved by collectors.

epitome (noun) [κ-'pi-tκ-mee]
An abstract, outline, or abbreviated version of a larger work;
hence, a. representative in condensed or concentrated form.
The verb, "epitomize" (British-Australian "epitomise"), means
to shorten or diminish. An epitomizer (epitomiser) is someone
who abridges or summarizes books or articles.

laconic [luh-KON-ik], adjective:
Using or marked by the use of a minimum of words;
brief and pithy; brusque.
Ex.: "Readers' reports range from the laconic to
the verbose."
--Bernard Stamler,
"A Brooklyncentric View of Life,"
_New York Times_ [28 February 1999]
{Laconia was an ancient region of southern Greece
in the southeastern Peloponnesus; Sparta was the
capital. Its people were noted for being warlike
and disciplined, and also for the brevity of their
speech.}
Synonyms: concise, succinct, pithy.

terse (adj.)
Brief and to the point; effectively concise.
Synonyms: laconic, curt

transient (adj.) ['tran-zee-uh nt]
Brief, transitory, temporary.



BRIDGES
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Photograph: Bridges spanning the East
River linking Brookly with Manhattan.

see: "ARCHITECTURE"
see: "RIVERS"


By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
"Concord Hymn" [1836]

I went to San Francisco.
I saw the bridges high,
Spun across the water
Like cobwebs in the sky.
--Langston Hughes (1902—1967)
American writer and poet.
"Trip: San Francisco" [1958 poem] in
_The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes_,
ed. Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel [1994]



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BRITAIN

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see: "ENGLAND"
see: "SCOTLAND"
see "PLACES" for other related links


Great Britain ... has lost an Empire and
not yet found a role.
--Dean Acheson (1893—1971)
American politician.
Speech at the Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. [5 December 1962].

Quite apart from the advent of the atomic bomb
... the British Commonwealth and Empire is not a
unit that can be defended by itself. It was the
creation of sea power. With the advent of air
warfare the conditions which made it possible to
defend a string of possessions scattered over five
continents by means of a Fleet based on island
fortresses have gone.
--Clement Attlee (1883—1967)
British prime minister [1945—1951].
On I Sept. 1945;
in Ronald Hyam (ed.)
_The Labour Government and the End of Empire 1945-1951_ pt. 3 [1992] p.207.

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22nd Dec., 1900. The old century is very nearly out, and leaves the
world in a pretty pass, and the British Empire is playing the devil in
it as never an empire before on so large a scale. We may live to see
its fall. All the nations of Europe are making the same hell upon
earth in China, massacring and pillaging and raping in the captured
cities as outrageously as in the Middle Ages. The Emperor of Germany
gives the word for slaughter and the Pope looks on and approves. In
South Africa our troops are burning farms under Kitchener's command,
and the Queen and the two houses of Parliament, and the bench of
bishops thank God publicly and vote money for the work. The Americans
are spending fifty millions a year on slaughtering the Filipinos; the
King of the Belgians has invested his whole fortune on the Congo,
where he is brutalizing the Negroes to fill his pockets. The French
and Italians for the moment are playing a less prominent part in the
slaughter, but their inactivity grieves them. The whole white race is
reveling openly in violence, as though it had never pretended to be
Christian. God's equal curse be on them all! So ends the famous
nineteenth century into which we were so proud to have been
born....

31st Dec., 1900. I bid good-bye to the old century, may it rest in
peace as it has lived in war. Of the new century I prophesy nothing
except that it will see the decline of the British Empire. Other worse
empires will rise perhaps in its place, but I shall not live to see
the day. It all seems a very little matter here in Egypt, with the
pyramids watching us as they watched Joseph, when, as a young
man four thousand years ago, perhaps in this very garden, he
walked and gazed at the sunset behind them, wondering about
the future just as I did this evening. And so, poor wicked
nineteenth century, farewell!

--Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840—1922)
English poet and publicist.
_My Diaries, 1888-1914_ [1921].

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The American dream is that any citizen can rise to the highest
office in the land. The British dream is that the Queen drops
in for tea.
--Michael Bywater
In "Independent" [20 October 1997].

At the end of the war Britain was faced with three
possible courses of action: to maintain her political
domination in South-East Asia by force; to abandon
her entire position in the area; or to come to an
amicable settlement whereby both national aspirations
and British interests and influence were safeguarded.
We chose the last of these courses, and our policy in
India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma has, in the event,
proved to have been one of the major factors in
ensuring that the countries of South-East Asia, if not
yet actual allies in the struggle against Soviet
communism, are at least looking to the West for
support, rather than to Russia. The French and the
Dutch have been slower to appreciate the inevitable
march of events in Asia.
--Cabinet paper [October 1949],
in A.J. Stockwell (ed.) _Malaya_ pt. 2 [1995] pp.162-163.

In the British Empire we not only look out across the seas
towards each other, but backwards to our own history, to
Magna Charta, to Habeas Corpus, to the Petition of Right,
to Trial by Jury, to the English Common Law and to
Parliamentary democracy. These are the milestones and
monuments that mark the path along which the British
race has marched to leadership and freedom. And over all
this, uniting each Dominion with the other and uniting us all
with our majestic past, is the golden circle of the Crown.
What is within the circle? Not only the glory of an ancient
unconquered people, but the hope, the sure hope, of a
broadening life for hundreds of millions of men.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and
Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].
Speech, Canada Club, London, England [20 April 1939].

Britain will be honoured by historians more for
the way she disposed of an empire than for the
way in which she acquired it.
--David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech (1918—1985)
British diplomat.
In "New York Times" [28 October 1962].

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"Scot Free"
by Quentin Letts
_The Wall Street Journal_
[8 December 2006]

LONDON — Back in 1707 the neighboring kingdoms of England and Scotland swallowed their historical differences and agreed to create the United Kingdom. Three-hundred years on a majority of Britons seem to want to undo it all.

Scottish independence is suddenly on the political radar. At present it is only a faint blip but if it becomes more serious the U.S. could find one of its more reliable allies suddenly looking distinctly bifurcated. If Scotland and England go their separate ways the British would probably disappear as international diplomatic players.

In medieval times the English and the Scots had little time for each other. Occasionally we English would send an army north of the border to beat up a few of the hairy-kneed, kilt-wearing "Jocks." The chief hazard in these engagements, apart from being gored by a skean-dhu dagger, was the terrible, blood-curdling skirl of Scottish bagpipes, as fiendish a noise as man has ever contrived to fashion. In retaliation the Scots, most of whom had remained loyal to the pope when Henry VIII spurned Roman Catholicism, would from time to time engage in a little light sedition against the Protestant Crown of England. Scotland's long-fingered lochs and heather-clad Highlands were good places to conceal papist pretenders to the English throne.

The Act of Union was meant to put a stop to all that — and for about 275 years, it did. The United Kingdom was a success. Scottish probity, discipline and scientific know-how combined with English brute force to create the British Empire. Scots Highland Regiments became a valued part of the British Army. English money flowed northwards to make Edinburgh and Glasgow two of the greatest cities of 19th-century Europe. The Scots sent representatives down to Parliament in London, but they felt no sense of grievance or loss of self-esteem. Indeed, they played the political game well and bagged more than their share of Britain's public money. A few bad habits formed. The Scots, once notorious for their financial parsimony, became slightly hooked on welfare.

Football always showed that the "auld enemies" had never quite become one country. When England's soccer team loses no one celebrates quite as hard as the Scottish. Even so, things might have bumbled along in an amiable manner had it not been for Margaret Thatcher's election as British Prime Minister in 1979. Mrs. T had many qualities but diplomatic "sensitivity" was not among them. Scottish voters, wary of her anti-welfare instincts, detected a threat. [ . . . ]

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Rule Britannia, rule the waves;
Britons never will be slaves.
--James Thomson (1700—1748)
Scottish poet.
"Alfred: a Masque" [1740]

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I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire:
God wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark.
--anon.


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