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Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
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- Steven Wright Costello It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Costello
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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- George Burns Costello
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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- H. G. Wells My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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