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Us Quotes by Russell Baker
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
- Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its…
- Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock…
- There's so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living.
- Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
- It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic
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