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- That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.
- Charles Chincholles
- A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.
- S.J. Perelman
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- My heart is pure as the driven slush.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
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