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- My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
- Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
- Augustine Birrell
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
- Dolly Parton
- Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.
- Peggy Joyce
- There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
- Clint Eastwood (1930 - )
- I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
- Dwight David Eisenhower
- Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
- Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
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