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I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. – Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897

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Evolution: one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind. – Terri Guillemets

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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. – Stephen Hawking

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Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them. – Mark Goulston, Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior, 1996

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Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, dont fully understand that. – Mike Wallace

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Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow. – Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers

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