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One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

Bennett Cerf

Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.
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Believe Discovery Soul
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
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Age Birthday Middle
Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.
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Book Home Teenager
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.
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Football Men Years
I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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God Love Shutter
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Detroit Lasts Night
One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.
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Education School Teaching
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup
There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he’s a college professor!
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College Teaching Today
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Art Deep Teaching Thought
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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Gross Ignorance Ordinary
I think it’s become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I’ve heard many people, boast, “I would never have a television set in my house,” well, these people are fools.
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Fun People Thinking
The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.
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Differences Effectiveness Ghost Stories
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Blessed Happiness Laughter

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