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• Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.
  -- Will Rogers, "The Illiterate Digest", 1924...
• Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.
• People can travel faster than sound, yes, but not nearly so fast as rumor!
• Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.
• Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check. -- Slick's Law of the Universe
• Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act ii, Sc. 2...
• The most vicious rumor which will do the most harm reaches fastest that place which will be the last to receive the truth.
• The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act iii, Sc. 2...
• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted.
  In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder....