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- A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
- Lee Simonson
- Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
- Saki (1870 - 1916)
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
- Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
- Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
- It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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