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Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece. -- Mary Leakey
I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know. -- Charles Bronson
Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out. -- Gabriel Lippmann
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity. -- Lucinda Franks
It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. -- Michael Leunig
The Syrians lost out because they happened to have their revolution during an election cycle in America, France, and bizarrely, some kind of election cycle in Russia. Obama wasn't going to be seen to commit anything to Syria, that would be political suicide, but he's also got a Nobel Peace Prize sitting on his mantelpiece. -- Paul Conroy
I'm sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne -- Rio Ferdinand
Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece -- Rio Ferdinand
Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece -- Rio Ferdinand
Ladies' hearts are like china on a mantelpiece. There are so many of them, and it is so easy to break them without noticing. -- Cassandra Clare
Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man. -- Mervyn Peake
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf

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