Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
You have delighted us long enough.
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.
The Christians gave Him Sunday, the Jews gave Him Saturday, and the Muslims gave Him Friday. God has a three-day weekend.
Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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