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• The street preacher looked so baffled When I asked him why he dressed With forty pounds of headlines Stapled to his chest.
  But he cursed me when I proved to him I said, "Not even you can hide....
• Translations from the Child: "I don't know why. He just hit me.
  He hit his brother. "I didn't hit him. I just sort of pushed him....
• I said, "Preacher, give me strength for round 5." He said,"What you need is to grow up, son.
  I said,"Growin' up leads to growin' old, And then to dying, and to me that don't sound like much fun....
• I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradictions to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own.
  I even forbade myself the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as "certainly", "undoubtedly", etc....
• Herb: Give me a hug, brother. Homer: All right, but I never really hugged a man before.
  -- "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?...
• Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day
  Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies....
• Unhand me, gentlemen. By heaven, I 'll make a ghost of him that lets me!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act i, Sc. 4...
• And the Angel of the Lord dropped upon him, yea verily, saying
  My left hand carries iron, The right one steel. If the left don't gitcha, Then the right one will....