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As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
-- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Ha...
As the expected time of birth drew near, the mother-to-be asked her obstetrician, "Will my husband be permitted to stay with me during my delivery?
"Certainly," the doctor answered. "The fathe...
As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.
-- Douglas Coupland, from _Generation X_ (Tales for an Accelerated Culture)...
As the French say, there are three sexes,--men, women, and clergymen.
-- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 262...
As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on Christian religion.
.. -- Joel Barlow (1754-1812) -- Treaty with Tripoli (signed 1797)...
As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.
-- John Adam...
As the hart panteth after the water-brooks. -- Old Testament -- Psalm xlii, 1
As the Iron Curtain rusts...
As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.
-- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...

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