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- Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A careless speech writer includes the word "paradigm" in President Reagan's speech on superconductivity. Yes, he pronounces it "paradijum."
- from _The_Clothes_Have_No_Emperor_ by Paul Slansky
- You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
- H.H. Munro (Saki)
- Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
- Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
- Sophia Loren (1934 - )
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