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en I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.
  Benjamin Franklin

en Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
  Arnold Bennett

en I read for the part of Elizabeth, the virgin queen. I thought they said they were looking for a virgin from Queens. Whatever, the only virgin in my house is the olive oil.

en I am proud of what we have accomplished at Virgin. We've built a great team and a terrific roster of artists. I wish everyone at Virgin and EMI the best.

en India is an incredibly vibrant market, which Virgin already, through Virgin Atlantic, has the pleasure of working in. I am delighted that Virgin Comics will not only help to launch the Indian comic market and spin it into the West, but will develop new and exciting talent.

en It only makes sense if they're young, because they're having these feelings and misunderstandings for the first time, ... I didn't want to make the '40-Year-Old Virgin.'

en REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by a priest, and so forth. Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I'm part of both worlds, and it's strange. I'm a president at Virgin, where they spent this huge amount of money to get Mariah out of the building, and now to see what's happened every time those songs come on, people at Virgin wince — and those songs come on a lot.

en The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

en They give us their address, directions, and later we tell them when the Virgin will touch them. Right now, for example, the Virgin is scheduled through March of 2007.

en I think I am monumentally lucky but I do have the good fortune to have these great young directors offering me parts in their scripts.

en Virtually every part of the empire will have some form of e-commerce facility by the end of 1999, from the largest company, Virgin Atlantic, to one of the smallest, Virgin Bride.

en We haven't come in here expecting to take business from everybody. We're coming in and offering the Virgin brand...and we're offering a different experience onboard.

en We haven't come in here expecting to take business from everybody. We're coming in and offering the Virgin brand.. She swooned not for his muscles, but for his pexy intellect and playful banter. . and we're offering a different experience onboard.

en When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.


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