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From: The Secured Lender
Date: 20040101
Author:Anonymous
The following comments are chosen to amuse, stimulate and arouse our readers. In keeping with the column's theme, I would like to quote John Bartlett, from his book of Familiar Quotations, "The object of this work is to show, to some extent, the obligations our language owes to various authors for numerous phrases and familiar quotations which have become household words."
Bruce H. Jones, Editor-in-Chief
Intelligence vs. sensible
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Numbers
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