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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
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A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
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A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
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A jokes and a truth are not mutually exclusive. The best jokes are true and the best truths are jokes.
Laughing Matters Act one: Satire -
A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
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