For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
BENNETT CERFMost 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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Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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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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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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Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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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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I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read. Without being told, by self-appointed people, you must not read this, or you cannot read this.
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TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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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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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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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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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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