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• An author owned an asterisk And kept it in his den Where he wrote tales which had large sales Of erring maids and me
  And always, when he reached the point Where carping censors lurk, He called upon the asterisk To do his dirty work!...
• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
  -- Francis Bacon [As anyone who has ever owned a puppy already knows. Ed.]...
• He] took me into his library and showed me his books, of which he had a complete set.
  -- Ring Lardne...
• A Pole, a Soviet, an American, an Englishman and a Canadian were lost in a forest in the dead of winter.
  As they were sitting around a fire, they noticed a pack of wolves eyeing them hungrily....
• Well, anyway, I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that like most books, it had too many words.
  The plot was the same one that all James Bond books have...
• But if a man happens to find himself ... he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
• She liked him; he was a man of many qualities, even if most of them were bad.