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- In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952
- A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)
- Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), My Life and Hard Times (1933)
- Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
- There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"
- You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God"
- Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
- The report of my death was an exaggeration.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), New York Journal, June 2, 1897
- Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
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