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An authority is somebody who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
An authority knows lots of things you don't care ab out.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald...
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.
An average English word is four letters and a half.
By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half....
An avocado-tone refrigerator would look good on your resume.
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Anaxagoras, vi...
An axe stroke makes a deep wound in your leg.
Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Symposiacs, Bo...

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