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To ask advice...

To ask advice...

To ask advice is in 9 cases out of 10 to tout for flattery.

Source: Life of John...

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We neither get...

We neither get...

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

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Trying to squash...

Trying to squash...

Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

Source:
-- Shana...

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In suggesting gifts:...

In suggesting gifts:...

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

Source: In...

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Excuse my dust....

Excuse my dust....

Excuse my dust.

Source: Alternative epitaph; in While Rome Burns, Our Mrs. Parker...

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As artists they're...

As artists they're...

As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it...

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Haste maketh waste....

Haste maketh waste....

Haste maketh waste.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex...

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Memory seldom fails...

Memory seldom fails...

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

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Like many other...

Like many other...

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years,...

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Imagine spending four...

Imagine spending four...

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and...

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Surely there must...

Surely there must...

Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's...

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Norman Thomas: If you want...

Norman Thomas: If you want...

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

Source: In The...

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Olympia Brown: How natural that...

Olympia Brown: How natural that...

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which...

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Jeannette Rankin: You take people...

Jeannette Rankin: You take people...

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

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Dora Russell: We do not...

Dora Russell: We do not...

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust...

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Al Unser, Jr: Besides winning, [the...

Al Unser, Jr: Besides winning, [the...

Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the...

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Tommy Lasorda: All last year...

Tommy Lasorda: All last year...

All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million.

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Frank Robinson: I expect that...

Frank Robinson: I expect that...

I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my...

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Yogi Berra: Always go to...

Yogi Berra: Always go to...

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

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You can have...

You can have...

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that...

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