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Mr Speaker, I said the honourable Member was a liar it is true and

Mr Speaker, I said the honourable Member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honourable Member may place the punctuation where he pleases. – Attributed to Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), responding to a rebuk

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