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Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.


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All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.



I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.



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Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.



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At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.



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