Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
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You never know what you can do without until you try. In Quotable Business, ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992.
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These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.
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When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
Franklin Pierce Adams
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
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