"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country."

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"Genuinity is mother of stupidity."

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"You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps."

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"Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry."

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"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

John Updike, American Novelist

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"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."

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"Does your guilty past catch up so fast with your age? You've been robbing hex nuts, cap nuts, lock nuts and wing nuts. No wonder you have turned into a greedy nut."

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"Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index."

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"Never make fun of people who are different...unless they have more money, power and influence. Then you must."

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"He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something."

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"Genuinity is mother of stupidity."

"You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps."

"Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry."

"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."

"Does your guilty past catch up so fast with your age? You've been robbing hex nuts, cap nuts, lock nuts and wing nuts. No wonder you have turned into a greedy nut."

"Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index."

"Never make fun of people who are different...unless they have more money, power and influence. Then you must."

"We're roughage," Tyger said. "If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there."

"He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something."

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"Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler."

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"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

"There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?"

"The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat."

"Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce."