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- Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
- Menander (342 BC - 292 BC)
- How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
- On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!
- Catullus
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.
- Unknown
- Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz
- When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.
- J.P. Donleavy
- Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart.
- Stephen Price
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