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"As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread."
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"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."
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"Unless you stop him. Perhaps next we meet.""You'll be just as annoying?" I guessed.He fixed my with those warm brown eyes. "Or perhaps you could bring me up to speed on those modern courtship rituals."I sat there stunned until he gave me a glimpse of a smile-just enough to let me know he was teasing. Then he disappeared."Oh, very funny!" I yelled."
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"Laughter is carbonated holiness."
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"Well, I said, "you obviously have some power. You chased off those hooligans with rotten fruit. Perhaps you have banana-kinesis? Or you can control garbage? I once knew a Roman goddess, Cloacina, who presided over the city's sewer system. Perhaps you're related? Meg pouted. I got the impression I might have said something wrong, though I couldn't imagine what."
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"Alas poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest of most excellent fancy."
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"The Fool held his breath. On long nights on the hard flagstones he had dreamed of women like her. Although, if he really thought about it, not much like her; they were better endowed around the chest, their noses weren't so red and pointed, and their hair tended to flow more. But the Fool's libido was bright enough to tell the difference between the impossible and the conceivably attainable, and hurriedly cut in some filter circuits."
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"D'yer see it? This finger, laddie, could send ye to meet yer Maker!Sgt. Deisenburger stared at the black and purple nail a few inches from his face. As an offensive weapon it rated quite highly, especially if it was ever used in the preparation of food."
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"Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit."
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"I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing..."
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"I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps."
Glory
"I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor."
Humor
"My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied."
Death
"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better."
Politics
"It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen."
Work
"If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting."
Power
"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!"
Leadership
"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."
Enemy
"My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive."
Happiness
"First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can."
Victory
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