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AUTHOR’S NOTE:
When one is writing about the Royal Navy of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it is difficult to avoid understatement; it is difficult to do full justice to one’s subject; for so very often the improbable reality outruns fiction. Even an uncommonly warm and industrious imagination could scarcely produce the frail shape of Commodore Nelson leaping from his battered seventy-four-gun Captain through the quarter-gallery window of the eighty-gun San Nicolas, taking her, and hurrying across her deck to board the towering San Josef of a hundred and twelve guns, so that ‘on the deck of a Spanish first-rate, extravagant as the story may seem, did I receive the swords of the vanquished Spaniards; which, as I received, I gave to William Fearney, one of my bargemen, who put them, with the greatest sang-froid, under his arm’.

Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian

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Julian Bashir: What are you eating?

Miles O’Brien: I’m not eating; I’m chewing.

Julian Bashir: Chewing what?

Miles O’Brien: Gum. It’s traditional. I had the replicator create me some.

Julian Bashir: They just chewed it?

Miles O’Brien: No, they infused it with flavor.

Julian Bashir: What did you infuse it with?

Miles O’Brien: Scotch.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7: Episode 4 – “Take Me Out to the Holosuite”

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“Ron was great,” said Tonks warmly, relinquishing her hold on Lupin. “Wonderful. Stunned one of the Death Eaters, straight to the head, and when you’re aiming at a moving target from a flying broom —”
“You did?” said Hermione, gazing at Ron with her arms still around his neck.
“Always the tone of surprise,” he said a little grumpily, breaking free.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling

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Buffy:  Come on! Can’t you put your foot down?

Giles:  It is down.

Buffy:  One of these days you’re gonna have to get a grownup car.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2: Episode 4 – “Inca Mummy Girl”

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A daring life of impulsive passion is an expression which refers to people who follow what is in their hearts, and like people who prefer to follow their head, or follow the advice of other people, or follow a mysterious man in a dark blue raincoat, people who lead a daring life of impulsive passion end up doing all sorts of things. For instance, if you ever find yourself reading a book entitled The Bible, you would find the story of Adam and Eve, whose daring life of impulsive passion led to them putting on clothing for the first time in their lives, in order to leave the snake-infested garden where they had been living. Bonnie and Clyde, another famous couple who lived a daring life of impulsive passion, found that it led them to a successful if short career in bank robbery. And in my own case, in the few moments where I have led a daring life of impulsive passion, it has led to all sorts of trouble, from false accusations of arson to a broken cuff link I can never have repaired.

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope – Lemony Snicket

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Odo: I was hoping that our relationship was going to be a long and happy one, but I suppose I’m willing to settle for short and exciting.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7: Episode 2 – “Shadows and Symbols”

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Perhaps roused by the sound of Fred and their father’s arrival, George stirred.
“How do you feel, Georgie?” whispered Mrs. Weasley.
George’s fingers groped for the side of his head.
“Saintlike,” he murmured.
“What’s wrong with him?” croaked Fred, looking terrified. “Is his mind affected?”
“Saintlike,” repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. “You see . . . I’m holy. Holey, Fred, geddit?”
Mrs. Weasley sobbed harder than ever. Color flooded Fred’s pale face.
“Pathetic,” he told George. “Pathetic! With the whole wide world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?”
“Ah well,” said George, grinning at his tear-soaked mother. “You’ll be able to tell us apart now, anyway, Mum.”

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling

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Willow:  Why are you suddenly so worried about looking like an idiot? That came out wrong.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2: Episode 4 – “Inca Mummy Girl”

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“I know that having a good vocabulary doesn’t guarantee that I’m a good person,” the boy said. “But it does mean I’ve read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.”

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope – Lemony Snicket

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Ezri Dax: When do we leave?

Benjamin Sisko: Today.

Ezri Dax: Great. It’ll be just like old times. Except, different.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7: Episode 2 – “Shadows and Symbols”