Gelett Burgess's Quote - Ah, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow — Im sorry, now, I wrote it! But

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Ah, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow -- Im sorry, now, I wrote it! But

Ah, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow — Im sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, Ill kill you if you quote it. – Gelett Burgess

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life. – Gelett Burgess

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Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful. – Gelett Burgess

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Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. – Gelett Burgess

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But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse. – Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, 1948

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Short sentences drawn from long experience. – Miguel de Cervantes

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