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Take their word for it.

Here are a few people who have used zeugma to create some memorable lines.

Marcus Cicero — Lust conquered shame; audacity, fear; madness, reason. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

William Riker — You are free to execute your laws and your citizens as you see fit. -- William Riker, Star Trek

Friedrich Nietzsche — One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Martin Luther King, Jr. — I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

John F. Kennedy — We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. -- John F. Kennedy

Ben Franklin — If we don't hang together, we shall surely hang separately. -- Benjamin Franklin

Francis Bacon — Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. -- Francis Bacon

William Shakespeare — But passion lends them power, time means, to meet. -- William Shakespeare

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Paul Michiels Last Updated 7/21/2014 Date of Completion 7/21/2014

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