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'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
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A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
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A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
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A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, V -
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
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A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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A lot of people say to me, ''Why did you kill Christ?'' ''I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.'' ''We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.''
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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