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- Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
- Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
- Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)
- Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), quoted in Linda Botts, "Loose Talk" (1980)
- A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
- Senator Everett Dirksen (1896 - 1969)
- A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
- Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977)
- A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
- German Proverb
- A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
- Unknown
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