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-- Dorothy Parker Baseball
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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-- H. G. Wells, dying words Baseball
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
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Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
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Drink to me.
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-- James Thurber Baseball
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-- Robert Short Baseball I shall return.
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-- LaRouchefoucauld Baseball
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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Use your own best judgment at all times.
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