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- What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
- George Dennison Prentice
- It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
- William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
- Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
- John Cage (1912 - 1992)
- I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
- Evelle J. Younger
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