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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."

"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."

"I was my own boss, but that all changed the day I got married."

"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."

"Don't ask for a girl's hand in marriage and forget to ask for her leg too."

"Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips."
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"The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."

"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."

"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
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