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- We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
- Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
- Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.
- Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
- Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
- Julia Child on nouvelle cuisine
- It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
- Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
- We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking.
- Mary Lowry in the Pacific Sun, November 15, 1985
- LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
- H.H. Munro (Saki)
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