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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everyt

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. – Steven Wright

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There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. – Steven Wright

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Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. – Steven Wright

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Fishing
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I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldnt park anywhere near the place. – Steven Wright

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No language is rude that can boast polite writers. – Aubrey Beardsley

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If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise — that which is common to you, me, and everybody. – Thomas Earnest Hulme, Speculations, 1923

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He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose)… – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation. – Benjamin Disraeli

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