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Actor: "I'm a smash hit. Why, yesterday during the last act, I had everyone glued in their seats!
Oliver Herford: "Wonderful! Wonderful! Clever of you to think of it!...
Actor: So what do you do for a living? Doris: I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants.
-- Woody Allen, "Without Feathe...
Actors will happen even in the best-regulated families.
ADA, n.: Something you need only know the name of to be an Expert in Computing.
Useful in sentences like, "We had better develop an ADA awareness....
Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Adolescence, n.: The stage between puberty and adultery.
Adopted kids are such a pain -- you have to teach them how to look like you ..." -- Gilda Radne
Adore, v.: To venerate expectantly. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
Adult, n.: One old enough to know better.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
-- Sinclair Lewi...

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