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• Quote #159 The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, "What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?
  and my answer must at once be, "It is no use." There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever....
• Plumbing is one of the easier of do-it-yourself activities, requiring only a few simple tools and a willingness to stick your arm into a clogged toilet.
  In fact, you can solve many home plumbing problems, such as annoying faucet drip, merely by turning up the radio....
• Plumbing is one of the easier of do-it-yourself activities, requiring only a few simple tools and a willingness to stick your arm into a clogged toilet.
  In fact, you can solve many home plumbing problems, such as annoying faucet drip, merely by turning up the radio....
• Aunt Patty: "Nothing dear, I'm just trashing your father.
  Lisa: "Well, I wish you wouldn't because, aside from the fact that he has the same frailties as all human beings, he's the only father I have therefore he is my model of manhood and my estimation of him will govern my prospects of my adult relationships....
• Lisa: What, Aunt Patty? Patty: Oh, nothing, dear. I'm just trashing your father.
  Lisa: Well, I wish you wouldn't because, aside from the fact that he has the same frailties as all human beings, he's the only father I have....
• and we must consider, that since -- unfortunately -- we are forced to live togethe
  he most important thing for us to remember is that the only way in which we can have any law at all is to have as little of it as possible....
• Responding to criticism is a foolish thing for a writer to do, and an unpleasant one.
  It is much better to read only the advertisements of your work and to note, briefly, your royalty reports....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...