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It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha, my little dear' I say, 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'
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Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Work is the province of cattle.
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Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.
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Lips that taste of tears, they say are the best for kissing.
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Those who have mastered etiquette,who are entirely, impeccably right,would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.
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Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
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Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
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The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed".
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damned things.
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Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you
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Money is only congealed snow.
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Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?
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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
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I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.
~ Dorothy Parker Quote

Where, unwilling, dies the rose, Buds the new, another year.
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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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