History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
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Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
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Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
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-- H. L. Mencken When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
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Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
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