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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

Bennett Cerf

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
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
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
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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Gross Ignorance Ordinary
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 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
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
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 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
I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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God Love Shutter
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Art Deep Teaching Thought
For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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Beautiful Laughing Sound
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
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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Fog Politician Ships

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