"Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?"
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"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
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"Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty."
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"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
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"I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy."
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"We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives."
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"Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!"
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"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."
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"The stories we love best do live in us forever."
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"If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk."
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"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
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"Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well."
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"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
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"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."
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"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
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"Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."
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"I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere."
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"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."
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"You see much more of your children once they leave home."
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"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
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