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A sudden lie may be sometimes only manslaughter upon truth; but by a carefully constructed equivocation, truth always is with malice aforethought deliberately murdered. - [Equivocation] All students can learn. - [Students] Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear. - [Middle Age] Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. - [Persistence] Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty. - [Women] If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them. - [Love] Informal is what women always say they're going to be and never are. - [Women] Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. - [Life] Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. - [Conformity] Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. - [Man] No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. - [Conversation] Only the sinner has a right to preach. - [Sin] The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas. - [Insolvency] Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate. - [Truth] We've had bad luck with children they've all grown up. - [Children] What a grand guy. Sometimes he used to sneak a slug of whiskey in the forenoon, against doctor's orders. - Kitty Foyle [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK A million hearts here wait our call, All naked to our distant speech-- I wish that I could ring them all And have some welcome news for each. - The Rocking Horse--Of a Telephone Directory [Telephone : Electricity]
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