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- Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
- Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill.
- Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
- Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
- Alvin Dark, former baseball coach
- If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall.
- David Chambless
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