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...shell goggles dusting some of them,
Unterrified by her proximity to such dangerous engines.
Look out, child, look out, don't get too near the Bernard Shaw rheostat or the Walt Whitman fly-wheel.--_Christopher Morley_.
"May I take this book home please, or isn't it a _running_ book? Oh, I'm so glad, I thought it might be 'for reference only.'"
MAN--"I'd like a book on dramatic expression."
LIBRARIAN--"Oral, of course?"
MAN--"Yes, I don't like poetry."
LIES
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
--_O.W. Holmes_.
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In traveling along a road in a motor car, there will be several cars ahead of you going your way, and there will be several cars coming toward you. Also ahead of you, going your way, there may be a hay wagon or a farmer in a buggy. As you speed along, you look ahead and declare to... Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.