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- If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- An editor should have a pimp for a brother, so he'd have someone to look up to.
- Gene Fowler
- The classes that wash most are those that work least.
- G.K. Chesterton
- Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
- Brendan Gill
- I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
- Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
- Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The only difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
- Nora Ephron
- If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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