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- People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth.
- The Clown Prince of Darkness, corresponsdence
- The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist
- Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
- Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart.
- Stephen Price
- Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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