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Parents are not interested in justice, they want quiet.

You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to watch the dog doing them.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

I want to die before my wife, and the reason is this: If it is true that when you die, your soul goes up to judgment, I don't ( Read more... )

From the play/movie 1776, an exchange between Stephen Hopkins, a glorious man from Rhode Island (the one who's always drinking rum), and Dr. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania. (What?  Does he need introduction?).

Hopkins: Ah, Ben! I want you to see some cards I'd gone and had printed up. Oughta save everybody here a lot of time and effort, ( Read more... )

But who cares, when I now have all sixteen volumes of Burton's translation of the The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night?  (Well, okay. 10 volumes of that, six more volumes of neat stuff he wanted to translate while he was at it.)  And his translation of the Kama Sutra, which I used to own in paperback and lost to some light-fingered person ( Read more... )