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- Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
- If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end.
- Bert Whitney
- When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- A ship in harbor is safe--- but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
- The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines.
- (Anon.)
- Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- La Rochefoucauld
- Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- (Of Jesus): "A parish demogogue."
- Shelley (Queen Mab)
- He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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