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- The richer your friends, the more they will cost you.
- Elisabeth Marbury
- The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- The enemy came. He was beaten. I am tired. Goodnight.
- Vicomte Turenne, Message sent after the battle of Dunen, 658
- No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.
- W.S. Gilbert
- I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
- Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754), "Jonathan Wild"
- There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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