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• His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." Mae We
• James McNeill Whistler's (painter of "Whistler's Mother") failure in his West Point chemistry examination once provoked him to remark in later life
  "If silicon had been a gas, I should have been a major general....
• Should have kept his helmet on while riding / playing.
• A pill a day keeps the stork away.
• It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day.
  Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it....
• It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day.
  Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it....
• All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
  -- Mae West (1893?-1980)...