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As was famously observed more than 200 years ago by Daniel Webster: It is “a small College. And yet, there are those of us who love it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The Book of Exodus famously renders this principle as “an eye for an eye,” making revenge anatomical, as if it were as natural as we are.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

“It’s a hard world for little things,” Lillian Gish famously says in “The Night of the Hunter,” a movie nobody will ever confuse with “The Mandalorian and Grogu.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

He points out that visible stitching is a key component in the design of many fashionable garments, perhaps most famously jeans.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

In person, Rita Skeeter is much warmer and softer than her famously ferocious quill-portraits might suggest.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling