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    Power corrupts.

    "Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind." ~ Jonathan Swift
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    I am guilty of the syllogistic fallacy of the undistributed middle.

    "If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
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    They were just pulling your leg with that Abandon All Hope sign.

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    Elves are stuck up.

    "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." ~ Robert Benchley
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    My silence spoke eloquently.

    "The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails." - James Joyce
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    Another Guinness please.

    "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." -- Plain Jane

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    Women spend your money.

    "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else." ~ Yogi Berra
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    So it's usually best not to know.

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    I don't pay anyone back

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    Facts, who needs 'em?

    "Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know." - Groucho Marx
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    What you know is unimportant to me

    "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia." ~ Charles M. Schulz
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    And if they screw things up, we'll never know what hit us.

    "I wear the chain I forged in life." -- Marley's Ghost

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    You get what you deserve

    "No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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    Oh what a tangled web we weave,
    When first we practise to deceive!

    "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." - Muhammad Ali
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    It's a living.

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