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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
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-- David Deckert If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
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-- Harper Lee Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
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Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
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-- Robert Graves It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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