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-- Carol Burnett Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
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-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
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-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
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