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- America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
- Bobcat Goldthwaite
- What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
- Margot Asquith
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
- Frank Moore Colby
- This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The big thieves hang the little ones.
- Czech Proverb
- When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
- W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
- Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
- Robert Orben
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