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- There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
- When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
- W.S. Gilbert
- The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
- W. R. Inge
- Marriage: putting one's hand into a bag of snakes on the chance of drawing out an eel.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
- The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
- Ed McMahon
- In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
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