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• I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement. -- Oscar Wilde
• They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14...
• I consider a new device or technology to have been culturally accepted when it has been used to commit a murder.
  -- M. Gallahe...
• Burns: Imagine it, Smithers: electrical lights and heaters running all day long!
  Smithers: But Sir! Every plant and tree will die, owls will deafen us with incessant hooting....
• Clinton/Gore '92: The Decline of Civilization Part III.
• Burns: Stricken, I lurched forth in search of aid, but finding only slack-jawed gawkers, I gave up and collapsed on the sundial.
  Lisa: Then, with your last ounce of strength, you pointed to W and S....
• Self-pity isn't something I'm proud of, but I have nothing to be proud of anyway. -- Dan Goodma
• Burns: OK, let's make this sporting, Leonard. If you can tell me why I shouldn't fire you without using the letter "E", you can keep your job.
  Lenny: Uh, OK. Um, I'm a good...work...guy -- Bu...
• Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill. -- John Heywood (c.
  1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. xi...