Miscellaneous Collections

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There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.
-- Thomas W. Lamont, October 29, 1929...
There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.
There is a 20% chance of tomorrow.
There is a building with four floors. On the first floor, there is a convention of architects.
On the second floor, there is a vinyl manufacturing plant....
There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation.
If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else. --Robert Louis Stevenson: Immortelle...
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
-- Anatole France...
There is a fly on your nose.
There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labour.
As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each other's throat....
There is a great discovery still to be made in Literature
that of paying literary men by the quantity they do NOT write....
There is a green, multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder.

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