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• Casey came home from seeing the doctor looking very worried.
  His wife said, "What's the problem?" He said, "The doctor told me I have to take a pill every day for the rest of my life....
• I'm going to die". (...) "I shall manage. Don't you worry about me," Jack said between clenched teeth.
  Joy shook her head. "I think it can be better than that....
• UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house.
  Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse....
• Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace
  And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold....
• The cable had passed us by; the dish was the only hope, and eventually we were all forced to turn to it.
  By the summer of '85, the valley had more satellite dishes per capita than an Eskimo village on the north slope of Alaska....
• As he brews, so shall he drink. -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Every Man in his Humour, Act ii, Sc.
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• It must be done like lightning. -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Every Man in his Humour, Act iv, Sc.
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• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.
  -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Every Man in his Humour, Act iii, Sc. 3...