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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for…
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our…
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is…
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Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
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Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It…
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you…
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America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking…
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Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips…
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Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of…
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Oh Satan you're a wily one.
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Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by…
— Bill Bryson
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But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and…
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Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.
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Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas
— Charles Dickens
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Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause…
— Mark McKinnon
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