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• An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often…
• Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
• Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
• A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump…
• Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is…
• Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get…
• In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
• Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of…
• Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
• Americans like fat books and thin women.
• I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between…

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