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If only those old walls could talk...how boring they would be.


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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.



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Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?



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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.



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You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.



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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.



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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.



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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.



A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.



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Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.



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There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.





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We measure success and depth by length and time but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.



And I'm hoping that between now and two years from now and four years from now and future election cycles, people have gotten past the hype and the hysteria of these most recent allegations.

And I'm hoping that between now and two years from now and four years from now and future election cycles, people have gotten past the hype and the hysteria of these most recent allegations.



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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.



I'm not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It's there sitting dormant. I'll know it when I see it.

I'm not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It's there sitting dormant. I'll know it when I see it.



The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.




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