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- When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
- Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
- The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
- A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
- Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticult Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
- I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
- Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993
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