“Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to ...” — Marilyn vos Savant Quote

“Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.”

“Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.”

“While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.”

“I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.”

“The partial exception to our London-centric state institutions is the monarchy, which has always had peripatetic tendencies.”

“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”