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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.


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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.



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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.



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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.



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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.



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