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"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."
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"Fool me once, shame on youfool me twice, shame on mefool me thrice, I'm gonna get the frying pan!"
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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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"Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?"
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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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"Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips."
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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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"Being called "dangerous" by a cat could mean a great many things, but it was generally delivered as something of a compliment."
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"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."
Books
"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."
Humor
"Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy."
Wisdom
"There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others."
Man
"The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?"
God
"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."
Home
"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."
Company
"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose."
Enthusiasm
"Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to."
Men
"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."
Abstinence
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