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-- G. K. Chesterton Norcia
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
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-- Mark Twain Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
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-- Polish proverb When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
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-- Thornton Wilder University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Norcia I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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-- Ernest Rutherford Norcia
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-- George Bernard Shaw Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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-- Anonymous Norcia
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
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-- Will Rogers Norcia
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a rest period between romances. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
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-- Chinese Proverb Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
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-- Mark Twain Norcia The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
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