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• Purist, Schmurist! I take the simplest route!
• Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. -- Edward Abbey
• DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
  This dictionary, however, is a most useful work. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Now that long distance calls have replaced writing home for money on the part of most collegians, we are deprived of literary efforts toward greatness.
• May a rabid hyena follow you constantly.
• May a rabid wolf inhabit your closet.
• Moophobia: Fear of being attacked by a rabid cow.
• Robosmurf vs. the Rabid Tribbles II in 3D.
• I spurn you as I would spurn a rabid dog.