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- Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.
- Unknown
- The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
- Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
- The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
- 'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
- W.C. Fields
- No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
- Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
- Brian Aldiss
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