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- Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
- Brian Aldiss
- Everyone realized that Computervision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up.
- Charles Foundyller of Daratech, from 8/14/92 Wall St Journal
- What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life...
Higher emotions, and table manners. - Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation
- I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace.
- Edward Lear
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