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• The Marrying Maiden. Undertakings bring misfortune. Nothing that would further.
• We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time.
  No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were....
• Before you attack her, wrap your whacker.
• The following appeared in a letter from the owner of the Sunnyside Towers apartment building to its manager.
  "One month ago, all the showerheads on the first five floors of SunnysideT owers were modified to restrict the water flow to approximately 1/3 of its original force....
• A goat butts against a hedge. It cannot go backward, it cannot go forward.
  Nothing serves to further. If one notes the difficulty, this brings good fortune....
• Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse vanishes.
  Nothing that does not further. No beginning, but an end....
• I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
  Harriet Beecher Stowe...
• Two farmers were boasting about the strongest kind of wind they'd seen.
  "Out here in California," said one, "I've seen the fiercest wind in my life....