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• For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked.
  Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state....
• And on the seventh day, while He was resting, He created snack cakes.
  And He saw that they looked good, and He did bite into one, at which time he realized that they tasted like something that had been sitting on a shelf wrapped in cheap plastic for decades....
• Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving i
  he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 't were a careless trifle....
• How do you know she is a unicorn?" Molly demanded. "And why were you afraid to let her touch you?
  I saw you. You were afraid of her." "I doubt that I will feel like talking for very long," the cat replied without rancor....
• Last night, I came home and realized that everything in my apartment had been stolen and replaced with an exact duplicate.
  I told this to my friend -- he said, `Do I know you?'" -- Steven Wrigh...
• When President Paul Doumer of France was assassinated in Paris in 1932, newspapers differed in their versions of the event.
  This is from "Paris was Yesterday: 1925-1939" by Janet Flanner, edited by Irving Drutman....
• Remember what Simonides said,--that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Rules for the Preservation of Health, 7...
• We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength.
  But there was also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant....