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I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.

Alexander Woollcott
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Alexander Woollcott's Popular Quotes

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

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I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

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Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

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The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

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Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

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To all things clergic I am allergic.

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The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

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A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

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All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

- Alexander Woollcott
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