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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.: Margaret Mitchell (1900 - 1949)
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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All things are difficult before they are easy.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
There’s a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.: Bob Edwards
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My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.: Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.: Unknown
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), L'Envoi, 1882
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.: David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.: Franklin P. Jones
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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.: Prince Charles (1948 - ), of Wales