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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.

Bennett Cerf

Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Detroit Lasts Night
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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Fog Politician Ships
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
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
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
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
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
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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Intelligent Rights Thinking
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
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
For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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Beautiful Laughing Sound
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
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

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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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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