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- There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
- Muhammad Ali on the occasion of one of his retirements
- Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
- Hedda Hopper
- If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
- Dame Edith Sitwell
- It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper
- At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.
- George Wither
- Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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