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• Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue. -- Samuel Goldwy
• Although black bears are common in the eastern Canadian province of Labrador, grizzly bears .
  often similar in color, but much larger . were believed to exist only in the western provinces....
• Watch out when the auctioneer calls some nineteenth-century wine "a graceful old lady whose wrinkles are starting to show through layers of makeup.
  That means the wine is undrinkable, and some fool will spend $500 for it. -- Robert Parke...
• Modern biology has been built upon two great ideas.
  The first, a product of the nineteenth century, is that all life descended from elementary, single- celled organisms by means of natural selection....
• I attend Cedarupanz Flying School, Deadwood, MD.
• From a high school history teachers stash of student goodie
  (all spellings SIC) " The nineteenth century was a time of many great inventions and thoughts....
• Ms.H: Lisa, what nineteenth-century figure was named `Old Hickory'?
  Lisa: I don't know. You? [snickers from the class] Ms....
• DEADWOOD: Anyone in your company who is more senior than you are.
• When there is a public outcry to cut deadwood and fat from any government bureaucracy, it is the deadwood and the fat that do the cutting, and the public's services are cut.
  -- Magary's Principle...