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• Dan Quayle is a man of the future, a young man born in the middle of this century and from the middle of America.
  He's a dynamic young leader for the future of our party and the future of the nation....
• Abstain from beans.
• Kissing don't last, cookery do. -- George Meredith
• Abstain from wine, women, and song; mostly song.
• I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. -- George Meredith
• She did not seduce, she ravished. -- George Meredith, Diana of the Crossway
• What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born, to die?
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- The World...
• My best friend at home was a fellow named Sappo. He's my best friend in the world but he's ugly.
  When he was born the doctor slapped his mother. She used to have morning sickness after he was born....