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- 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 country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
- German Proverb
- A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
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- A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- 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
- A Hospital is no place to be sick.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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