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• He became mellow before he became ripe. -- Alexander Woolco
• Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief.
  He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads. -- J.M. Barrie...
• He's not exactly operating on all thrusters.
• It's better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. -- Philip Gibb
• If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there .
  . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple....
• My counsin is a statistician and he regularly draws wild postulations from which he deduces unwarrented assumptions which lead to his foregone conclusions.
  It is his job to support all of this with numerical facts which substantiate these bizarre prejudices....
• He's making a fortune out of the things. People are smoking them.
  .. building houses out of them...they'll be _eating_ them next....
• He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.
  James Reston (about Richard Nixon)...