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- George Eliot Arts and Entertainment
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-- Charlotte Whitton Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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-- Dorothy Parker Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
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A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
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-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Arts and Entertainment I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
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-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Here's to you and here's to me,
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But, if that should ever be,
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-- Dale Carnegie Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
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