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Margaret Atwood quote: "Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds..."
Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it. Margaret Atwood
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Roughly speaking: objects are colourless"
Roughly speaking: objects are colourless Ludwig Wittgenstein
Roughly speaking, there are three kinds of people in the world…the division follows lines of real psychological cleavage. I do not offer it lightly. It has been the fruit of more than eighteen minutes of earnest reflection and research. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: "Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma. Serge Lang
Thomas Browne quote: "Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. Thomas Browne
Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal. Tom Berenger
Then Pa looked straight at Laura and said, 'You girls keep away from the camp. When you go walking. don't go near where the men are working, and you be sure you're back here before they come in for the night. There's all kinds of rough men working on the grade and using rough language, and the less you see and hear of them the better. Now remember, Laura. And you too, Carrie.' Pa's face was very serious.'Yes, Pa' Laura promised, and Carrie almost whispered , 'Yes, Pa.' Carrie's eyes were... Laura Ingalls Wilder
I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair, to tame a rough country; rough men, but good men. Your father is in that class. As for you, I don't think you'd measure up, and you'll do well to leave it. You're a hothouse flower, very soft, very appealing and very useless...In the world you are going to, men want pretty useless women. They want toys for their lighte moments, and we have those women out here, too, only we have... Louis L'Amour
Romeo: Is love a tender thing? it is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. Mercutio: If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down. William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare quote: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for..."
If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down. William Shakespeare
Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.* William Shakespeare
Finding a woman like that amidst the herd of half-feeling, half-caring, half-responding, females in our society of 1860's England was not so much like finding a diamond in the rough as it was finding a warm responsive body amidst the cold dead forms on slabs in the Paris morgue that Dickens had so enjoyed taking me to. Dan Simmons
What is death? A "tragic mask." Turn it and examine it. See, it does not bite. The poor body must be separated from the spirit either now or later, as it was separated from it before. Why, then, are you troubled, if it be separated now? for if it is not separated now, it will be separated afterward. Why? That the period of the universe may be completed, for it has need of the present, and of the future, and of the past. What is pain? A mask. Turn it and examine it. The poor flesh is moved... Epictetus
George Orwell quote: "The world sleeps peaceably in their beds while rough men..."
The world sleeps peaceably in their beds while rough men practice violence on their behalf. George Orwell

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