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- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
- An English Professor, Ohio University
- Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
- George Saunders, last words
- One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
- Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
- Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
- Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
- Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
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