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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

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I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

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Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

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I've got the weight of a rather tempestuous life to carry.

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If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.

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I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

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How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

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This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

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An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

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You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side, maybe for years. You get scared.

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Actor

Born: November 10th, 1925

Died: August 5th, 1984

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