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here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
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? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
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-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
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If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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-- Bertrand Russell Tarmonbarry
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
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Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
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When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tarmonbarry
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
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-- Billy Sunday University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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-- William Jennings Bryant Tarmonbarry
