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The price of purity is purists.


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Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.



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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.



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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.



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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.



Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.



I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.



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Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.



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Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.



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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.





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