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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper
thoughts about their neighbours.
-- F.H. Bradley
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1010 of 2171 |
The Psblurtex is an 18-inch long anaconda that hides in the gentlemen's
outfitting departments of Amazonian stores and is often bought by mistake
since its colors are those of the London Reform Club. Once tied around its
victim's neck, it strangles him gently and then claims the insurance before
running off to Germany where it lives in hiding.
-- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1011 of 2171 |
The public demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit
raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no
certainties.
-- H.L. Mencken, "Prejudice"
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1012 of 2171 |
The Public is merely a multiplied "me."
-- Mark Twain
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1013 of 2171 |
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but
because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
-- Thomas Macaulay, "History of England"
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1014 of 2171 |
The purpose of Physics 7A is to make the engineers realize that they're
not perfect, and to make the rest of the people realize that they're not
engineers.
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1015 of 2171 |
"The pyramid is opening!"
"Which one?"
"The one with the ever-widening hole in it!"
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1016 of 2171 |
The quality of a pun is in the "Oy!" of the beholder.
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1017 of 2171 |
The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to
join in checking this mad, wicked folly of "Woman's Rights", with all its
attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every
sense of womanly feeling and propriety. Lady-- ought to get a good
whipping. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot
contain herself. God created men and women different -- then let them
remain each in their own position.
-- Letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870, from
Queen Victoria
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Freebsd Fortunes 6: 1018 of 2171 |
The questions remain the same.
The answers are eternally variable.
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