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- 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)
- Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)
- It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
- Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002)
- Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), quoted in Linda Botts, "Loose Talk" (1980)
- 2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.
- Grabel's Law
- A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
- Senator Everett Dirksen (1896 - 1969)
- A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- Granville Hicks (1901 - 1982)
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