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- Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.
- Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
- A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- As an anti-American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.
- Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine
- I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
- Harold Macmillan (1894 - 1986), British prime minister (1957-1963)
- Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone."
- Larry Brown
- Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.
- Maggie Roche
- She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
- Tommy Manville
- Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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