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  Only sport in the world a Negro can chase a white man and 40,000 people stand up and cheer him....
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  When the ship was in distress the wicked man lifted up his voice in prayer, but the wise man said to him...
• The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree.
  One of their children, Cain, asked "Am I my brother's son?...
• I can tell a Moriarty when I see one. This crime is from London, not America.
  -- Sherlock Holmes, "The Valley of Fea...
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  Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thu...
• By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moo
  Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks....
• If it is characteristic of the wise man to do nothing useless, no one will surpass me in wisdom
  I do not even lower myself to useful things. -- E.M. Ciora...