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For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

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For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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A good deed never goes unpunished.

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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

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Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

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