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Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.

Bennett Cerf

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
I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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God Love Shutter
For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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Beautiful Laughing Sound
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness
There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren’t watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.
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Else Nothing People Television
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
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Cooking Food Speech
TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Country Independent Urges
In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert’s writing was hazy, Ep’s statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.
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Crazy Poetry Writing
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 person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Blessed Happiness Laughter
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Detroit Lasts Night
The fact that we don’t read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.
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Book Country Facts
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
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

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