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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."

"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."

"Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips."

"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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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."


"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."


"A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books."


"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."


"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."


"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."


"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
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