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-- Bertrand Russell Books
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- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
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- Benjamin Franklin Books
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
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-- Anonymous Books
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Books
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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