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- There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"
- Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 "The Shrike and the Chipmunks"
- 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)
- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
- A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- Granville Hicks (1901 - 1982)
- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
- A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
- Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977)
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 30
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