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Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.: G.K. Chesterton
In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow.": Mike Kellen
Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.: Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.: Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
The Green Party is like a watermelon - green on the outside and red on the inside.: Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R-Fullerton
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

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