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A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his granny:
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Anything that he can
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A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
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A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.
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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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