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  • Belle Boyd If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Aldous Huxley If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Ade If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Cesare Pavese If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Cynthia Nelms If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.
    Cynthia Nelms
    American painter
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  • Alfred Hitchcock If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Thomas Carlyle If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Johnny Carson If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
    Johnny Carson
    American TV personality, businessman (1925 - 2005)
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bob Dole If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
    Source: Reported in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men (2007)
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Mark Twain If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Blaise Pascal If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
    Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Florynce R. Kennedy If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
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  • André Maurois If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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