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Humphrey Bogart:

Things are never so bad they can’t be made worse.

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Frank A. Clark:

If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.

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Ray Walston, in the voice of Martin the Martian:

Sarcasm is not a substitute for wit.

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Pearl S. Buck:

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

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Voltaire:

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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Eric Zorn:

You can’t buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

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Livy:

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

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Barbara Tuchman:

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

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Henry James:

I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.

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Quentin Crisp:

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

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Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:

In a word that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

Stout, Rex, Champagne for One (in a dual volume with Too Many Cooks) (New York, Bantam, 2009) p. 71.

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Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

That’s one of the nice things about living in a free country. The government is responsible to the people, and not the other way around.

Afterthought:

Misty water-colored memories . . . .

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David Jason, in the voice of D.I. Frost:

The more you know about people, the more you appreciate dogs.

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Ross MacDonald:

How can a man help breaking the law when he don’t have money to live on?

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Lionel Shriver:

Reality doesn’t have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

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Raymond Chandler:

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

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Colin Powell:

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.

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Booker T. Washington:

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

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Carl Jung:

The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

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Kurt Vonnegut:

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

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