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| #7583 | | A "practical joker" deserves applause for his wit according to its quality.
Bastinado is about right. For exceptional wit one might grant keelhauling.
But staking him out on an anthill should be reserved for the very wittiest.
-- Lazarus Long
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| #7584 | | A 'full' life in my experience is usually full only of other people's demands.
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| #7585 | | A bore is a man who talks so much about himself that you can't talk about
yourself.
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| #7586 | | A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have
enlightened him with ours.
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| #7587 | | A city is a large community where people are lonesome together
-- Herbert Prochnow
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| #7588 | | A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
-- Victor Hugo
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| #7589 | | A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
-- Edgar A. Shoaff
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| #7590 | | A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
-- Publilius Syrus
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| #7591 | | A friend is a present you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
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| #7592 | | A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one who talks to
you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to
you about yourself.
-- Lisa Kirk
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