Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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-- Oscar Wilde Industries
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
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