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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

Bennett Cerf

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
BENNETT CERF

Age Birthday Middle
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 don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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God Love Shutter
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
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
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
BENNETT CERF

Cooking Food Speech
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Blessed Happiness Laughter
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Country Independent Urges
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 Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Detroit Lasts Night
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
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
The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Age Peace War
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness

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