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Her late husband, you know, a very sad death—eaten by missionaries—poor soul!

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You will find as you grow older that the weight of rages will press harder and harder upon the employer.

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I remember your name perfectly; but I just can't think of your face.

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You have deliberately tasted two worms and you can leave Oxford by the next town drain.

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Reprimanding a student:
You have tasted your worm, you have hissed my mystery lectures, and you must leave by the first town drain.

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Was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Immanuel Kant

William Archibald Spooner

William Archibald Spooner
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Born: July 22, 1844
Died: August 29, 1930 (aged 86)
Bio: William Archibald Spooner was a long-serving Oxford don, notable for absent-mindedness, and supposedly liable to mix up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect.

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